Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
It is hid from the eyes of all living - That is, of all people, and of all animals. Man has not found it by the most sagacious of all his discoveries, and the keenest vision of beasts and fowls has…
The question which Job had asked (Job 28:12) he asks again here; for it is too worthy, too weighty, to be let fall, until we speed in the enquiry. Concerning this we must seek till we find, till we…
Cambridge Bible
seeing it is hid Rather simply, it is hidden. Job 28:28 as summing up Job 28:15-19 meant, thus Wisdom is nowhere to be attained; Job 28:28proceeds, it is hidden&c.
kept close i. e. it is concealed…
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