Job Chapter 28 verse 28 Holy Bible
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.
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And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
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And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
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And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - And unto man he said. Not in so many words, not by any written or spoken revelation; but by the nature which he implanted in man, and especially by the conscience wherewith he endowed him. Man feels in his heart of hearts that whatever wisdom may be in the abstract, his true wisdom is "the fear of God," his true understanding "to depart from evil." No amount of intelligence, no amount of cleverness, or of information, or of knowledge, or of worldly or scientific wisdom, will be of any avail to him, unless he starts with this "beginning" (Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 1:7), and builds on this foundation. This foundation, at any rate, Job had. since God bore him witness that he had it (Job 2:3).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) And unto man he said.--No one can for a moment suppose that this is an historical statement, or is to be treated as being one; but it is nevertheless profoundly and universally true. It is the wisdom of man as man to fear the Lord and to depart from evil; and this is God's primary revelation to man, which virtually underlies and is involved in all others. When we are told, as we are elsewhere, that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, this implies that the fear of the Lord does not supersede, though it may be essential to, any other revelation, or any other development of wisdom, or any other manifestation of it. It is to be observed that the word rendered "the Lord" here is not the four-lettered name Jehovah which was used by Job in Job 12:9, but the other name for the Divine Being (Adonai), which was in later times universally substituted for the name Jehovah by the Jews in reading.
