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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 28:22

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 it only by hearsay, they had no personal acquaintance with it.

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See also Job 28:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 28:22. _DESTRUCTION AND DEATH SAY, WE HAVE HEARD THE FAME_ _thereof_] אבדון ומות _Abaddon vamaveth_, the destroyer, and his offspring death. This is the very name that is given to the _devi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 discovere...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 28 _ 1. The treasures of the earth (Job 28:1)_ 2. The better treasures (Job 28:7) 3. God knoweth the way and the true wisdom (Job 28:23)...

  • 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 is given to Job or to Zophar. It is a widely accepted conclusion of scholars...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DESTRUCTION. Hebrew. _Abaddon._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The preceding verses indicated that Wisdom cannot be acquired by man though he should bid for it the most precious things that he possesses, in other words that it is unattainable; these verses state...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _destruction and death_ Heb. _Abaddon_and _Death_. Abaddon is Sheol, the realm of the dead, here personified, as also is Death. Comp. Revelation 1:18; Revelation 9:11, and see on ch. Job 26:6. _the fa...

  • 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 to us by degrees. _Destruction and death say, we have hea...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. But where wisdom is, man cannot discover; only God knows. (Job 28:12-28) TEXT 28:12-28 12 BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND? And where is the place of understanding? 13 Man knoweth not the price...

  • 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 Sheol (Job 30:23; Job 26:6, note; Psalms 9:13). WE HAVE (O...

  • 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 fea...

  • 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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In verse 21, Job spoke about things that are alive. In verse 22, he spoke about people who are dead. Neither life nor death can teach you how to be wise. V23 Only God understands wisdom. He alone ca...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 28 JOB’S POEM ABOUT WISDOM...

  • 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 which leads to their abode....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲבַדֹּ֣ון וָ֭ מָוֶת אָ֣מְר֑וּ בְּ֝ אָזְנֵ֗ינוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXIII. CHORAL INTERLUDE Job 28:1 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 we may g...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE Job 28:1 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, Job 28:1. T...

  • 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 argume...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Destruction. Hebrew abaddon, which is before (chap. xxvi. 6.) used to signify the bottomless abyss. There, too late! the dead become acquainted with the value and nature of wisdom. (Haydock) --- But...

  • 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,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 sense, and know not anything, but their souls; either the...

  • 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 grave, and damned in hell, as some gloss it. Others, man i...

  • 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 whose faculties are more raised and enlarged than those...

  • Leslie 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 considers...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Death and destruction had only heard. rumor concerning the source of wisdom....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    20-28 There is a two-fold wisdom; one hid in God, which is secret, and belongs not to us; the other made known by him, and revealed to man. One day's events, and one man's affairs, have such referenc...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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 more raised thoughts than men that live here. Or, 2. T...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 28:22 Destruction H11 Death H4194 say H559 (H8804) heard H8085 (H8804) report H8088 ears H241 Destruction

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The value of divine wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: To be truly religious is to be truly wise. If we know God, His wisdom will appear in the prac...

  • 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 out fr...

  • 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 and...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 28:12 BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND? (Compare v. Job 28:20.) With all the negative statements in these verses, the answer is that true wisdom is unknown to m

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 28:22 The reference to ABADDON AND DEATH here is likely related to Job’s earlier description of them as a realm that is hidden from human observation (Job 26:5)....

  • The 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 to...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 28:1 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 sinners (Job 27:8),...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, Job said, turning now to a different vein of thought, he said, "Now, there are places where gold is discovered and silver is discovered, and iron and brass, men dig the shafts, they follow the ve...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Job 28:14; Psalms 83:10...

  • 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. Though they cannot give an account of it themselves y...

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