King James Version
Job 28:10 in the King James Version says “He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.” — study this verse from Job chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.”
Job 28:10 · KJV
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. rock: or, flint
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. overflowing: Heb. weeping
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“among the rocks”
H6697properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
“rivers”
H2975a channel, e.g., a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the nile, as the one river of egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the tigris, as the m
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“every precious thing”
H3366value, i.e., (concretely) wealth; abstractly, costliness, dignity
“seeth”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“and his eye”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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