King James Version
Job 28:24 in the King James Version says “For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;” — study this verse from Job chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;”
Job 28:24 · KJV
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.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
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
“For he looketh”
H5027to scan, i.e., look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“under the whole heaven”
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
“and seeth”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
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