King James Version
Job 28:23 in the King James Version says “God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.” — study this verse from Job chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.”
Job 28:23 · KJV
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;
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“the way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“thereof and he knoweth”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the place”
H4725properly, a standing, i.e., a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
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