Job 28:22
Good News Translation
Even death and destruction Admit they have heard only rumors.

New Revised Standard Version
Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

Contemporary English Version
Death and destruction have merely heard rumors about where it is found.

New American Bible
Abaddon and Death say, “Only by rumor have we heard of her.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.

Destruction

Job 28:14 The depth saith: It is not in me: and the sea saith: It is not with me.

Psalm 83:10-12 Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth. . . .

Context
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
21It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not. 22Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.23God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.…
Cross References
Revelation 9:11
A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).

Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

Job 28:21
It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not.

Proverbs 8:32
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Job 28:21
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