Job 28:22
Hebrew Text— Job 28:22Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
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If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’
for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
He who sees me sees him who sent me.
They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”, but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”.