“ Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. ”
Destruction - This is a personification which is exceedingly sublime. Job had spoken of the wonderful discoveries made by science, but none of them had disclosed true wisdom. It had not been disc...
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...
Destruction. Hebrew. Abaddon.
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof - אבדון ומות Abaddon vamaveth, the destroyer, and his offspring deat...
Destruction and death say, &c.— In this and the following verses we have an answer to the great question, "Whence cometh wisdom?" But it opens to us by degrees. Destruction and death say, we h...
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. i.e., the abodes of destruction and of the dead. "Death" put for Sheol ( Job 30:23 ; Job 26:6 , note; Psalms 9:13 )....
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...
Destruction and death say. — That destruction and death should have heard the fame of wisdom is natural, as it consists in departing from the evil which leads to their abode.
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...
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...
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...
(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...
Destruction and death say ,.... Meaning the dead that are in the pit of destruction, the grave; not their dead bodies there, devoid of life and sense, and know not anything, but their souls; either...
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. Ver. 22. Destruction and death say, &c. ] That is, the dead in the grave, and damned in hell, as some gloss it. Others,...
Destruction and death Either, 1st, Men that are dead, and thereby freed from the encumbrance of their bodies, which depressed their minds, and whose faculties are more raised and enlarged than thos...
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...
The Wisdom Hidden from Man; The Wisdom Revealed to Man. B. C. 1520. 20 Whence then com...
Destruction and death; either, 1. Men that are dead, and thereby freed from the encumbrance of their bodies, which depress their minds, and have more raised thoughts than men that live here. Or,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Job 28:14 ; Psalms 83:10-12
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 themselve...