Job 28:14; Psalms 83:10-12
Destruction - This is a personification which is exceedingly sublime. Job had spoken of the wonderful discoveries made by science, but none of th...
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...
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 Abadd...
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...
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...
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...
Destruction ] Heb. Abaddon , the realm of the dead. The fame of Wisdom, but not the knowledge of it, has reached these gloomy regions.
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...
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 su...
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 t...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
Destruction and death Either, 1st, Men that are dead, and thereby freed from the encumbrance of their bodies, which depressed their minds, and whos...
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 2...
The Wisdom Hidden from Man; The Wisdom Revealed to Man. B. C. 1520....
Destruction and death; either, 1. Men that are dead, and thereby freed from the encumbrance of their bodies, which depress their minds, and have...
JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOM The place occupied by this chapter one peculiar to itself. Its connection with the preceding or succeeding portions...
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...
Job 28:2 . Brass is molten, melted out of ores of zinc, lapis calaminaris, light perforated ores, found on Mendip hills in Somerset, Derbyshire, a...
But where shall wisdom be found? The speculative difficulties of an inquiring intellect solved by the heart of practical piety Two things are p...
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,...
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...
Destruction and death, the realm of the dead and the place reserved for the wicked, say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears, they knew of...
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.