Job 28:21
Good News Translation
No living creature can see it, Not even a bird in flight.

New Revised Standard Version
It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air.

Contemporary English Version
It is hidden from human eyes and even from birds.

New American Bible
She is hidden from the eyes of every living thing; even from the birds of the air she is concealed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

hid

Psalm 49:3,4 My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding. . . .

Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.

Matthew 13:17,35 For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them. . . .

1 Corinthians 2:7-10 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory: . . .

Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

from the fowls

Job 28:7 The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.

air.

Context
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
20Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? 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.…
Cross References
Job 28:20
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

Job 28:22
Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.

Job 28:20
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