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Job Chapter 28 verse 22 Holy Bible

ASV Job 28:22

Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
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BBE Job 28:22

Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.
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DARBY Job 28:22

Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.
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KJV Job 28:22

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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WBT Job 28:22

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.
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WEB Job 28:22

Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
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YLT Job 28:22

Destruction and death have said: `With our ears we have heard its fame.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. "Death and destruction" seem to represent the inhabitants of Sheol - the world of the departed. Job personifies them, and represents them as saying, that in their gloomy and remote abode (Job 10:21, 22) they have heard some dim rumour, some vague report, of the "place" of wisdom and understanding, the nature of which, however, they do not communicate to him. His idea seems to be that their knowledge on the subject does not much transcend the knowledge of living men, whom he regards as profoundly ignorant with respect to it. He thus prepares the way for his assertion in the next verse. Man, neither living nor dead, can make any answer to the great question raised; but -

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) Destruction and death say.--That destruction and death should have heard the fame of wisdom is natural, as it consists in departing from the evil which leads to their abode.