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Green's Literal Translation
Job 28:22
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Abaddon and Death say,“We have heard news of it with our ears.”
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
The places of destruction and death say, ‘We have heard reports about it.'
Destruction and Death say, ‘With our ears we have heard a rumor about where it can be found.'
"Abaddon (the place of destruction) and Death say, 'We have [only] heard a report of it with our ears.'
"Abaddon and Death say, 'With our ears we have heard a report of it.'
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.
Abaddon and Death say,‘With our ears we have heard a report of it.'
Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor about it.'
Death and destruction have merely heard rumors about where it is found.
Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it with our ears.'
Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.
Death and destruction say, ‘We have never seen wisdom; we have only heard rumors about it.'
Destruction and death say, We have heard the report of it with our ears.
Even death and destruction Admit they have heard only rumors.
Abaddon and Death say, ‘We heard its rumor with our ears.'
Destruccion & death saie: we haue herde tell of her wt oure eares.
Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.
Destruction and Death say: 'We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.'
Destruction and death say, Wee haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.
Destruction and death say, We haue hearde the fame therof with our eares.
Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it.
Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumour thereof with our ears.
Perdicioun and deeth seiden, With oure eeris we herden the fame therof.
Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.
Destruction and Death say, "We have heard a report about it with our ears.'
Destruction and Death say, ‘We've heard only rumors of where wisdom can be found.'
The Place That Destroys and Death say, ‘We have only heard about it with our ears.'
Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
Destruction and death, have said, With our ears, have we heard the report thereof!
Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.
Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
Destruction and death have said: `With our ears we have heard its fame.'
"Abaddon and Death say, 'With our ears we have heard a report of it.'
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Destruction: Job 28:14, Psalms 83:10-12
Reciprocal: Job 26:6 - destruction Job 28:13 - in the land Job 42:5 - heard
Cross-References
And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and stretched his tent with Bethel toward the sea, and Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.
and blessed be the most high God, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him a tithe of all.
And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of Jehovah the everlasting God.
And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your Seed.
And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.
And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This is nothing except the house of God, and this is the door to Heaven.
and this stone which I have placed as a memorial pillar shall become the house of God; and all which You shall give to me, I will tithe the tenth to You.
And he set up an altar there. And he called it, El, the God of Israel.
And God said to Jacob, Rise up, go to Bethel and live there. And make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled before your brother Esau.
And he built an altar there and called the place Elbethel; because God revealed Himself to him there when he fled from the face of his brother.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Destruction and death say,.... Meaning the dead that are in the pit of destruction, the grave; not their dead bodies there, devoid of life and sense, and know not anything, but their souls; either the damned in hell, or the saints in heaven: the Targum is, the house of destruction, and the angel of death; or rather it regards such as are dead, who while alive had only a report of this wisdom; wherefore if their records and writings, or traditions handed down from them, are inquired into, the result of the information they will give concerning it will amount to no more than this:
we have heard the fame thereof with our ears; it has been reported to us there is such wisdom, but what it is we know not; and this is all that we can say about it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Destruction - This is a personification which is exceedingly sublime. Job had spoken of the wonderful discoveries made by science, but none of them had disclosed true wisdom. It had not been discovered in the shaft which the miner sank deep in the earth; in the hidden regions which he laid open to day, nor by the birds that saw to the farthest distance, or that were regarded as the interpreters of the will of the gods. It was natural to ask whether it might not have been discovered in the vast profound of the nether world - the regions of death and of night; and whether by making a bold appeal to the king that reigned there, a response might not be heard that would be more satisfactory. In Job 28:14, the appeal had been made to the sea - with all its vast stores; here the appeal is to far deeper regions - to the nether world of darkness and of death. On the word used here (אבדון 'ăbaddôn), “destruction,” see the notes at Job 26:6. It is employed here, as in that place, to denote the nether world - the abode of departed spirits - the world where those are who have been destroyed by death, and to which the destruction of the grave is the entrance.
And death - Death is used here to denote “Sheol,” or the abode of the spirits of the dead. The sense is, that those deep and dark regions had simply heard the distant report of wisdom but they did not understand it, and that if one went down there it would not be fully revealed to him. Perhaps there is an allusion to the natural expectation that, if one could go down and converse with the dead, he could find out much more than can be known on earth. It was to be presumed that they would understand much more about the unseen and future world, and about the plans and government of God, than man can know here. It was on this belief, and on the hope that some league or alliance could be made with the dead, inducing them to communicate what they knew, that the science of necromancy was founded; see the notes at Isaiah 8:19.
We have heard the fame thereof - We have heard the report of it, or a rumor of it. The meaning is, that they did not understand it fully, and that if man could penetrate to those dark regions, he could not get the information which he desired. Wisdom is still at such an immense distance that it is only a report, or rumor of it, which has reached us.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 28:22. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof] אבדון ומות Abaddon vamaveth, the destroyer, and his offspring death. This is the very name that is given to the devil in Greek letters Αβαδδων, Revelation 9:11, and is rendered by the Greek word Απολλυων, Apollyon, a word exactly of the same meaning. No wonder death and the devil are brought in here as saying they had heard the fame of wisdom, seeing Job 28:28 defines it to be the fear of the Lord, and a departure from evil; things point blank contrary to the interests of Satan, and the extension of the empire of death.
