VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 28:22

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

Read it in 5 translations

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

Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’

Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

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

Destruction and death have said: ‘With our ears we have heard its fame.’

19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?

21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

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

23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven;

25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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