Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
Job 28:11
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.Hebrew; LXX and Vulgate He searches
- KJV
- He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.overflowing: Heb. weeping
- WEB
- He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
- ASV
- He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
- LSV
- He has bound overflowing rivers, || And the hidden thing brings out [to] light.
- YLT
- From overflowing floods he hath bound, And the hidden thing bringeth out [to] light.
- DBY
- He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.
- DRC
- The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light.
- GNV
- He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.
- JPS
- He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
- LXXE
- And he has laid bare the depths of rivers, and has brought his power to light.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- מִ֭בְּכִי נְהָר֣וֹת חִבֵּ֑שׁ וְ֝תַעֲלֻמָ֗הּ יֹ֣צִא אֽוֹר׃BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
- LXX-Br
- Βάθη δὲ ποταμῶν ἀνεκάλυψεν, ἔδειξε δὲ αὐτοῦ δύναμιν εἰς φῶς.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 45:2–3“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may…
- 1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise…
- Job 26:8He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
- Isaiah 37:25I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- Isaiah 44:27who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
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