Job 28:22

Destruction. Hebrew. Abaddon.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Destruction - This is a personification which is exceedingly sublime. Job had spoken of the wonderful discoveries made by science, but none of th...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 Abadd...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 Sheo...
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 mys...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Destruction ] Heb. Abaddon , the realm of the dead. The fame of Wisdom, but not the knowledge of it, has reached these gloomy regions.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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...
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 th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 sens...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 gr...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Destruction and death Either, 1st, Men that are dead, and thereby freed from the encumbrance of their bodies, which depressed their minds, and whos...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Wisdom Hidden from Man; The Wisdom Revealed to Man. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Destruction and death; either, 1. Men that are dead, and thereby freed from the encumbrance of their bodies, which depress their minds, and have...
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...
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 ques...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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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 p...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 28:14 ; Psalms 83:10-12
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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....

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

Related Commentaries of Job 28:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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