Job 28:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 28:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  It is hid from the eyes of all living - That is, of all people, and of all animals. Man has not found it by the most sagacious of all his discoveries, and the keenest vision of beasts and fowls h...

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• Job 28:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the (m) fowls of the air. (m) Meaning that there is no natural means by which man can attain heavenly wisdom: which he means by the...

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• Job 28:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 28. Here again we come to a critical question. It is difficult to fit this chapter into the argument, whether Job 27:7-23 is given to Job or to Zophar. It is a widely accepted conclusion of s...

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• Job 28:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Job 28:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But where shall wisdom be found?— Job continues to give further instances of the daring and yet successful attempts of mankind, to provide themselves with every necessary and conveniency of life; s...

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• Job 28:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. None can tell whence or where, seeing it, etc. Fowls. The gift of divination was assigned by the pag...

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• Job 28:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Mystery of Divine Wisdom In this famous chapter Job declares that Wisdom—that is, the principle of the divine government of the world—is a mystery not to be solved by man. Man's wisdom lies in...

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• Job 28:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXIII. CHORAL INTERLUDE Job 28:1-28 THE controversy at length closed, the poet breaks into a chant of the quest of Wisdom. It can hardly be supposed to have been uttered or sung by Job. But if...

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• Job 28:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Pearl of Great Price Job 28:1-28 A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age. Job compares it with the search of the miner for the hidden treasures of the earth, J...

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• Job 28:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In a fine passage Job now discussed the question of wisdom. What was supremely lacking in his friends' dealing with him was wisdom to understand. As an introduction to the main statement of his argum...

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• Job 28:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (20) В¶ 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...

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• Job 28:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living ,.... Meaning not the beasts of the field, as some interpret it; this makes the sentiment jejune and trifling; but rational creatures, men, so the Septua...

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• Job 28:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Ver. 21. Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living ] As hath been before set forth, Job 28:13 . They tha...

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• Job 28:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Whence then cometh wisdom , &c. By what means, then, shall we get this precious treasure of wisdom, of which we are so desirous? Who can show us where it lies, that we may go and search for it?...

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• Job 28:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  EARTH'S MEASURED TREASURES (vv.1-6) Job has spoken of the folly of wicked men. Now he shows that which stands in beautiful contrast to Chapter 27. The language here is magnificent, as Job consid...

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• Job 28:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Wisdom Hidden from Man; The Wisdom Revealed to Man. B. C. 1520.       20 Whence then com...

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• Job 28:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of all living; of all men that live upon the earth. From the fowls of the air: though they fly high, and can see far and well, yet they cannot discern this: men of the most raised understandings...

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• Job 28:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOM The place occupied by this chapter one peculiar to itself. Its connection with the preceding or succeeding portions of the book by no means obvious. Appears scarcely...

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• Job 28:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 28:1 , Job 28:12-13 ; Job 28:20-28 This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two sections being terminated by this question, with a slight variety of statement: "Whence...

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• Job 28:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 28:2 . Brass is molten, melted out of ores of zinc, lapis calaminaris, light perforated ores, found on Mendip hills in Somerset, Derbyshire, and other places. Job 28:4 . The flood breaketh...

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• Job 28:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But where shall wisdom be found? The speculative difficulties of an inquiring intellect solved by the heart of practical piety Two things are prominently developed in this chapter--Man’s power...

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• Job 28:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 28:1-18 The connection of this chapter with the preceding is somewhat obscure. Probably we are to regard Job as led to see, even while he is justifying God's ways with sinner...

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• Job 28:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  God Alone The Possessor of True Wisdom. Over against man's foolish quest for vain and unstable riches Job places the wisdom of God, unattainable by the outward seeking and searching of men.

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• Job 28:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 2:7-10 ; Colossians 2:3 ; Job 28:7 ; Matthew 11:25 ; Matthew 13:17 ; Matthew 13:35 ; Psalms 49:3 ; Psalms 49:4

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• Job 28:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Hid — The line and plummet of human reason, can never fathom the abyss of the Divine counsels. Who can account for the maxims, measures and methods of God's government? Let us then be content, not...

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