Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells, New Living Translation “God alone understands the way to wisdom; he knows where it can be found, English Standard Version “God understands the way to it, and he knows its place. Berean Standard Bible But God understands its way, and He knows its place. King James Bible God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. New King James Version God understands its way, And He knows its place. New American Standard Bible “God understands its way, And He knows its place. NASB 1995 “God understands its way, And He knows its place. NASB 1977 “God understands its way; And He knows its place. Legacy Standard Bible “God understands its way, And He knows its place. Amplified Bible “God understands the way [to wisdom] And He knows its place [for wisdom is with God alone]. Christian Standard Bible But God understands the way to wisdom, and he knows its location. Holman Christian Standard Bible But God understands the way to wisdom, and He knows its location. American Standard Version God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because God is discerning its ways and he knows its place Brenton Septuagint Translation God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it. Contemporary English Version God is the only one who knows the way to wisdom; Douay-Rheims Bible God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof. English Revised Version God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. GOD'S WORD® Translation "God understands the way to it. He knows where it lives Good News Translation God alone knows the way, Knows the place where wisdom is found, International Standard Version God understands how to get there; he knows where they live. JPS Tanakh 1917 God understandeth the way thereof, And He knoweth the place thereof. Literal Standard Version God has understood its way, | And He has known its place. Majority Standard Bible But God understands its way, and He knows its place. New American Bible But God understands the way to her; it is he who knows her place. NET Bible God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place. New Revised Standard Version “God understands the way to it, and he knows its place. New Heart English Bible "God understands its way, and he knows its place. Webster's Bible Translation God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth its place. World English Bible “God understands its way, and he knows its place. Young's Literal Translation God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Where Can Wisdom Be Found?…22Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’ 23But God understands its way, and He knows its place. 24For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.… Cross References Job 9:4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered? Job 28:12 But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell? Job 28:20 From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell? Proverbs 8:22 The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old. Treasury of Scripture God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof. Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. Jump to Previous Alone Dwells Resting-Place Thereof Understandeth Understands Understood WayJump to Next Alone Dwells Resting-Place Thereof Understandeth Understands Understood WayJob 28 1. There is a knowledge of natural things12. But wisdom is an excellent gift of God (23) God understandeth the way thereof.--God is the author of wisdom, and His fear is the beginning thereof; so with His infinite knowledge of the universe He cannot but be cognisant of the place and way thereof. It is to be observed that while the foundation of wisdom is said to be coeval with that of the world, the very existence of wisdom in relation to man implied the existence of evil, because except by departing from evil there could for man be no wisdom, though evil itself may undoubtedly involve and imply the deflection from a previously existing right. Wrong, for example, is what is wrung aside from the right. The two ideas which Job starts with are man's ignorance of the price and the place of wisdom. Neither he nor nature knows the place of it: neither all living, nor the deep, nor the sea; and as for its price, though man is prepared to give any high price for the costly stones and jewels of the earth, yet all that he has to give is not to be mentioned in comparison with the value of wisdom. Wisdom, however, is to be purchased by the poor, as we may infer from the language of the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 55:1), or, at all events, that which ranks with wisdom; and in like manner Christ represented the kingdom of heaven as a pearl of great price, which would demand all that a man had to buy it, and yet he represented the poor as those especially to whom it was preached. It is true that the wisdom of which Job speaks (Job 28:28) is in no way connected with the Gospel of the kingdom; but yet, if the words of the wise are indeed given from one Shepherd, it is impossible not to recognise a central thought underlying all such words, if not in the separate minds of the wise at heart, in the original mind of the one Shepherd. So we can see that that which is true of wisdom as described by Job receives its illustration from that which is true of the Gospel of the kingdom and of the evangelical promises of Isaiah.Verse 23. - God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. God only understands what true wisdom is. It is a part of his being, an essential element of his nature. He knows "the way" of it, i.e. how it works and manifests itself; and he knows "the place' of it, i.e. where it dwells, what limits it has, if any, and how far it is communicable to any beside himself. The highest knowledge is all hid in God (Colossians 2-3); and, except so far as God imparts it to him, man can know nothing of it. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew But Godאֱ֭לֹהִים (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative understands הֵבִ֣ין (hê·ḇîn) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 995: To separate mentally, understand its way, דַּרְכָּ֑הּ (dar·kāh) Noun - common singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action and He וְ֝ה֗וּא (wə·hū) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are knows יָדַ֥ע (yā·ḏa‘) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3045: To know its place. מְקוֹמָֽהּ׃ (mə·qō·w·māh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition Links Job 28:23 NIVJob 28:23 NLT Job 28:23 ESV Job 28:23 NASB Job 28:23 KJV Job 28:23 BibleApps.com Job 28:23 Biblia Paralela Job 28:23 Chinese Bible Job 28:23 French Bible Job 28:23 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 28:23 God understands its way and he knows (Jb) |
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