Job 28:22
Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
BSB
ASV
Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
KJV
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof - אבדון ומות Abaddon vamaveth, the destroyer, and his offspring death. This is the very name that is given to the devil in Greek letters Αβαδδων, Rev 9:11, and is rendered by the Greek word Απολλυων, Apollyon, a word exactly of the same meaning.
"Have a little patience," says Death to the inquisitive soul: "I will fetch thee shortly to a place where even this wisdom will be found." When the mystery of God shall be finished it will be laid open, and we shall know as we are known; when the veil of flesh is rent, and the interposing clouds are scattered, we shall know what God does, though we know not now, John xiii.
We have [only] heard--the report of her. In the land of the living (Job 28:13) the workings of Wisdom are seen, though not herself. In the regions of the dead she is only heard of, her actings on nature not being seen (Ec 9:10).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk6
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
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If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of men!
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
Through
Job 28:14The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’
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O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
