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Gill's Exposition
God understandeth the way thereof,.... And he only; not the way that men can come at the knowledge of wisdom, which at present appears to be past finding out; but rather the way which wisdom itself…
Barnes' Notes
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…
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
destruction and death Heb. Abaddonand Death. Abaddon is Sheol, the realm of the dead, here personified, as also is Death. Comp. Rev 1:18; Rev 9:11, and see on ch. Job 26:6.
the fame thereof i. e. the…