Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
Job 28:7
In 11 translations
- BSB
- No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
- KJV
- There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
- WEB
- That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
- ASV
- That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon’s eye seen it:
- LSV
- A path—a ravenous bird has not known it, || Nor has an eye of the falcon scorched it,
- YLT
- A path — not known it hath a ravenous fowl, Nor scorched it hath an eye of the kite,
- DBY
- It is a path no bird of prey knoweth, and the vulture's eye hath not seen it;
- DRC
- The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.
- GNV
- There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.
- JPS
- That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it;
- LXXE
- There is a path, the fowl has not known it, neither has the eye of the vulture seen it:
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- נָ֭תִיב לֹֽא־יְדָ֣עוֹ עָ֑יִט וְלֹ֥א שְׁ֝זָפַ֗תּוּ עֵ֣ין אַיָּֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- Τρίβος, οὐκ ἔγνω αὐτὴν πετεινὸν, καὶ οὐ παρέβλεψεν αὐτὴν ὀφθαλμὸς γυπός·
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 11:6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
- Job 28:21–23It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air. Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’ But God understands its way, and He knows its place.
- Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Job 38:19Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
- Job 38:24In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
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