Job 28:14

Three great regions are mentioned, none of which is the "place" of Wisdom, the land of the living, the deep, and the sea. These three exhaust the extent of the upper world. The "land of the living" is the earth as the abode of living beings, more especially of men, Psalms 52:5. The "deep" is the primeval abyss, out of which perhaps the sea is fed, lying under the earth, Genesis 1:2; Psalms 24:2 an almost mythological conception. Down under all these, however, lies the underworld of the dead, ch. Job 26:5.