Job 28:22
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New International Version (©1984)
Destruction and Death say, 'Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.'

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Abaddon and Death say, 'With our ears we have heard a report of it.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Decay and Death say, 'We've heard a rumor about it.'

King James Bible
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

American King James Version
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

American Standard Version
Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.

Bible in Basic English
Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.

Darby Bible Translation
Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.

English Revised Version
Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumour thereof with our ears.

Webster's Bible Translation
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.

World English Bible
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'

Young's Literal Translation
Destruction and death have said: 'With our ears we have heard its fame.'

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

28:22 Death - The grave, the place of the dead, to 'which these things are here ascribed, as they are to the depths, and to the sea, by a common figure. Though they cannot give an account of it themselves yet there is a world, on which these dark regions border, where we shall see it clearly. Have patience, says death: I will fetch thee shortly to a place where even this wisdom shall be found. When the veil of flesh is rent, and the interposing clouds are scattered, we shall know what God doth, though we know not now.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

22. That is, the abodes of destruction and of the dead. "Death" put for Sheol (Job 30:23; 26:6; Ps 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).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

28:20-28 There is a two-fold wisdom; one hid in God, which is secret, and belongs not to us; the other made known by him, and revealed to man. One day's events, and one man's affairs, have such reference to, and so hang one upon another, that He only, to whom all is open, and who sees the whole at one view, can rightly judge of every part. But the knowledge of God's revealed will is within our reach, and will do us good. Let man look upon this as his wisdom, To fear the Lord, and to depart from evil. Let him learn that, and he is learned enough. Where is this wisdom to be found? The treasures of it are hid in Christ, revealed by the word, received by faith, through the Holy Ghost. It will not feed pride or vanity, or amuse our vain curiosity. It teaches and encourages sinners to fear the Lord, and to depart from evil, in the exercise of repentance and faith, without desiring to solve all difficulties about the events of this life.


Job 26:6 "Naked is Sheol before Him, And Abaddon has no covering.
Proverbs 8:32 "Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways. (NASB ©1995)

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