King James Version
Job 28:21 in the King James Version says “Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. air: or, heaven” — study this verse from Job chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. air: or, heaven”
Job 28:21 · KJV
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. air: or, heaven
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Seeing it is hid”
H5956to veil from sight, i.e., conceal (literally or figuratively)
“from the eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“of all living”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
“from the fowls”
H5775a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
“of the air”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
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