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Where Can Wisdom Be Found?

Job 28:22

In 11 translations

BSB
Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’Abaddon means Destruction.
KJV
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
WEB
Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
ASV
Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
LSV
Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard its fame.
YLT
Destruction and death have said: 'With our ears we have heard its fame.'
DBY
Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.
DRC
Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.
GNV
Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.
JPS
Destruction and Death say: 'We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.'
LXXE
Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֲבַדּ֣וֹן וָ֭מָוֶת אָ֣מְר֑וּ בְּ֝אָזְנֵ֗ינוּ שָׁמַ֥עְנוּ שִׁמְעָֽהּ׃
LXX-Br
Ἡ ἀπώλεια καὶ ὁ θάνατος εἶπαν, ἀκηκόαμεν δὲ αὐτῆς τὸ κλέος.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 83:10–12who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground. Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
  • Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
  • Job 28:14The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’

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