King James Version
Job 28:22 in the King James Version says “Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.” — study this verse from Job chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.”
Job 28:22 · KJV
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.
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and death”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
“thereof with our ears”
H241broadness. i.e., (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
“We have heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“the fame”
H8088something heard, i.e., a sound, rumor, announcement; abstractly, audience
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