Job 28:21

World English Bible (2000)

Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:3-4 : 3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter understanding. 4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
  • Matt 13:17 : 17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
  • 1 Cor 2:7-9 : 7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him." 10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
  • Col 2:3 : 3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

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    7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

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  • Job 28:20
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    20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 28:11-14
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    11 He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

    12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

    13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

    14 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

  • Job 28:22-23
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    22 Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'

    23 "God understands its way, and he knows its place.

  • Job 35:11
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    11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

  • Eccl 7:24
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    24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

  • Job 34:21
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    21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

  • Job 22:14
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    14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

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    8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

  • Isa 10:14
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    14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."

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    16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

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    7 "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

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    25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.

  • Prov 1:17
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    17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

  • Job 3:21
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    21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

  • Job 37:21
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    21 Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

  • Job 36:25
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    25 All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.

  • Prov 30:18
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    18 "There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don't understand:

  • Isa 29:15
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    15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"

  • Job 3:23
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    23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 39:26
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    26 "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

  • Job 22:11
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    11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • Job 4:21
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    21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

  • Prov 7:23
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    23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

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    26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

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    5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

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    27 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

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    8 As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

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    18 (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

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    23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

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    4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

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    8 Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.

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    8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

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    13 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;

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    9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.