Job 28:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

Job 28:22 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Psalms 83:10-12
Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth. …
Job 28:14
The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-28)

The question which Job had asked (Job 28:12) he asks again here; for it is too worthy, too weighty, to be let fall, until we speed in the enquiry. Concerning this we must seek till we find, till we get some satisfactory account of it. By a diligent prosecution of this enquiry he brings it, at length, to this issue, that there is a twofold wisdom, one hidden in God, which is secret and belongs not…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. That is, the abodes of destruction and of the dead. “Death” put for Sheol (Job 30:23; 26:6; Psa 9:13). We have [only] heard--the report of her. We have not seen her. In the land of the living (Job 28:13) the workings of Wisdom are seen, though not herself. In the regions of the dead she is only heard of, her actings on nature not being seen (Ec 9:10).