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Job 28:21
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It is hidden from the eyes of every living thingand concealed from the birds of the sky.
Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the sky.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air.
It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, even from the birds of the air.
For it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.
"It is hidden from the eyes of all the living And concealed from the birds of the heavens.
"It is hidden from the eyes of every living creature, And concealed from the birds of the sky.
Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the sky.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen?
Thus it is hidden from the eyes of all livingAnd concealed from the birds of the sky.
It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
inasmuch as it is hidden from the eyes of all living and kept secret from the birds flying around in the sky?
For it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the fowl of the heavens.
Wisdom is hidden from every living thing on earth. Even birds in the sky cannot see it.
It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the fowls of the air.
No living creature can see it, Not even a bird in flight.
It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and it is concealed from the birds of the heaven.
Yea, it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the heavens;
She is hyd from the eyes of all men, yee & fro the foules of the ayre.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.
For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all liuing, and kept close from the foules of the ayre.
She is hid from the eyes of all men liuing, yea & from the foules of the ayre.
It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
It is hid fro the iyen of alle lyuynge men; also it is hid fro briddis of heuene.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
It is hidden from the eyes of all living, And concealed from the birds of the air.
It is hidden from the eyes of all humanity. Even the sharp-eyed birds in the sky cannot discover it.
It is hidden from the eyes of all living. It is hidden from the birds of the sky.
It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air.
Seeing it hath been hid from the eyes of every living thing, and, from the bird of the heavens, hath it been concealed?
It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not.
It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air.
It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.
"Thus it is hidden from the eyes of all living And concealed from the birds of the sky.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hid: Psalms 49:3, Psalms 49:4, Matthew 11:25, Matthew 13:17, Matthew 13:35, 1 Corinthians 2:7-10, Colossians 2:3
from the fowls: Job 28:7
air: or, heaven
Reciprocal: Job 28:13 - in the land Job 37:19 - we
Cross-References
The Lord is my strength, the reason for my song, because he has saved me. I praise and honor the Lord — he is my God and the God of my ancestors.
In response, you have agreed that the Lord will be your God, that you will obey all his laws and teachings, and that you will listen when he speaks to you.
and come home safely, I will sacrifice to you whoever comes out to meet me first."
when I was living with the Arameans in Geshur. I promised that if the Lord would bring me back to live in Jerusalem, I would worship him in Hebron."
Mephibosheth, the grandson of Saul, also came to meet David. He had missed David so much that he had not taken a bath or trimmed his beard or washed his clothes the whole time David was gone.
Mephibosheth replied, "He can have it all! I'm just glad you've come home safely."
Finally Naaman said, "If you won't accept a gift, then please let me take home as much soil as two mules can pull in a wagon. Sir, from now on I will offer sacrifices only to the Lord .
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,.... Meaning not the beasts of the field, as some interpret it; this makes the sentiment jejune and trifling; but rational creatures, men, so the Septuagint, Eve is said to be the mother of, Genesis 3:20; wisdom, as a perfection in God, displayed in his works of creation and providence, is but imperfectly known by men; and the secret reasons of his providential dealings with men, good and bad, are hid from all at present; and as for spiritual wisdom or godliness, and the Gospel of Christ, and Christ himself, they are hid from the eyes of all natural and carnal men, though ever so wise and prudent in other things:
and kept close from the fowls of the air, or "heaven" k; either the devils so called, because they dwell in the air, and are the posse or power of the air, Ephesians 2:2; and because of their ravenous and cruel disposition, and swiftness to do mischief; see Luke 8:5; or rather the holy angels, as Jarchi, whose habitation is in heaven, and who are swift to do the will of God, and are represented as having wings like fowls; though these know much, yet the wisdom of God in his providence, in the doctrines of the Gospel, and Christ himself, the Wisdom of God, are in a good measure hid from them; at least their knowledge is imperfect, and they are desirous of prying more into these things, 1 Peter 1:12: unless men of the most piercing and penetrating geniuses, that soar aloft in the things of nature, and make the greatest discoveries therein, and yet know nothing of divine and spiritual things, of the arcanas of Providence or of grace, should be meant.
k השמים "caeli", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
It is hid from the eyes of all living - That is, of all people, and of all animals. Man has not found it by the most sagacious of all his discoveries, and the keenest vision of beasts and fowls has not traced it out.
And kept close - Hebrew “concealed.”
From the fowls of the air - Compare the notes at Job 28:7. Umbreit remarks, on this passage, that there is attributed to the fowls in Oriental countries a deep knowledge, and an extraordinary gift of divination, and that they appear as the interpreters and confidants of the gods. One cannot but reflect, says he, on the personification of the good spirit of Ormuzd through the fowls, according to the doctrine of the Persians (Compare Creutzer’s Symbolik Thes 1. s. 723); upon the ancient fowlking (Vogelkonig) Simurg upon the mountain Kap, representing the highest wisdom of life; upon the discourses of the fowls of the great mystic poet of the Persians, Ferideddin Attar, etc. Among the ancient Greeks and Romans, also, a considerable part of their divinations consisted in observing the flight of birds, as if they were endowed with intelligence, and indicated coming events by the course which they took; compare also, Ecclesiastes 10:20, where wisdom or intelligence is ascribed to the birds of the air. “Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.”
