Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 28:27

The terms employed with reference to the Lord’s knowledge of wisdom are remarkable. They are: (1) seeing, or intuition; (2) declaring or numbering, ratiocination; (3) preparing or establishing, determination; (4) searching out, or investigation. Each of these actions implies the operation of mind, and is so far opposed to the fatality of an impersonal law or the fixed necessity of an inevitable nature.

Continues after advertising

See also Job 28:27 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 28:27. _THEN DID HE SEE IT, AND DECLARE IT_] When he had finished all his creative operations, and tried and proved his work, חקרה _chakarah_, investigated and found it to be very good; then...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN DID HE SEE IT - That is, then did he see wisdom. When in the work of creation he gave laws to the rain and the thunder storm; when he weighed out the winds and measured out the waters, then he sa...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _then did he see it then_, i. e. when He made a decree for the rain in the act or at the time of creation, when He gave material agencies their laws. Then He "saw" Wisdom, she presented herself to His...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The idea of the preceding verse taken up anew and expanded in creation God saw Wisdom and searched it out....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Wisdom can nowhere be found either by man or by any creature (Job 28:21), only by the Creator. _God_knoweth the place of it and is in possession of it, for He is the maker and upholder of the universe...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GOD UNDERSTANDETH THE WAY THEREOF— Job having observed, that the generations of men who had lived in former ages had said, concerning wisdom, _we have heard the fame thereof with our ears,_ adds, that...

  • 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

    _THEN DID HE SEE IT, AND DECLARE IT; HE PREPARED IT, YEA, AND SEARCHED IT OUT._ Declare - manifest her-namely, in His works (Psalms 19:1). So the approval bestowed by the Creator on His works (Genesi...

  • 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

    'When God ordered creation, Wisdom was present to Him; He declared it, gave it existence, and contemplated it in all its fulness with divine approval' (Gibson)....

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Wisdom is not merely the thoughts of human minds. And wisdom is not clever ideas, like the ideas of Job’s friends. God chose wisdom as a quality that people need. God recognised that wisdom is impor...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָ֣ז רָ֭אָהּ וַֽ יְסַפְּרָ֑הּ הֱ֝כִינָ֗הּ וְ...

  • 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

    _It. All the works of God proclaim his wisdom. (Haydock) --- He never made an acquisition of it, but possessed it from all eternity, Proverbs viii. 23._...

  • 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

    THEN DID HE SEE IT, AND DECLARE IT,.... His own wisdom, when he made and executed his decrees concerning rain, lightning, and thunder; he saw it in himself, and as it appeared in the works of his hand...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. Ver. 27. _Then did he see it, and declare it, &c._] Or, Then doth he see it, and number it, &c., _sc._ When he ordereth w...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then did he see it_ Namely, wisdom, which is the subject of the present discourse. This God saw, not without, in any creature formed by him, but within himself; he looked upon it in his own eternal m...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    then, when He exercised His creative and providential power, DID HE SEE IT AND DECLARE IT, He unfolded and set forth before men some of the evidences of eternal wisdom; HE PREPARED IT, YEA, AND SEARCH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AND DECLARE IT: Or, did number it...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    By such wisdom God established laws for all such physical manifestations....

  • 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

    THEN; either from eternity, when he decreed what he would do, or when he first created them. DID HE SEE IT, i.e. wisdom, which is the subject matter of the present discourse. This God saw not abroad,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 28:27 saw H7200 (H8804) declared H5608 (H8762) prepared H3559 (H8689) out H2713 (H8804) declare it -

  • 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 28:23 Only GOD UNDERSTANDS and KNOWS wisdom and how it is acquired (v. Job 28:23). God gives wisdom, and it is defined in re

  • 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

    Proverbs 8:22; Psalms 19:1...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    It — Wisdom, which is the subject of the present discourse. This God saw within himself; he looked upon it in his own mind, as the rule by which he would proceed in the creation and government of all...

Continues after advertising