Job 28:24

Corners, ends & visibility

Job (Wisdom Literature, Old Testament) · Wisdom poetry (Hymn to Wisdom)

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What the passage explicitly says

God looks to the qetsavot / qatseh (ends, extremities) of the earth and sees under the whole heavens.

What requires interpretation

'Ends of the earth' is idiomatic for 'the whole earth' throughout Scripture (Ps 22:27; Isa 45:22).

Flat-circle interpretation

God surveys a bounded earth from end to end.

Globe-compatible interpretation

Merism for 'everywhere' — God's omniscience extends across every extremity, whether the earth is flat or spherical.

Original-language study

קָצֶה
qatseh · H7097
Hebrew

End; extremity; edge; utmost boundary.

Brown–Driver–Briggs (BibleHub reprint)

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Questions for further study

  • How does this verse fit Job's Hymn to Wisdom (chapter 28)?
  • Why is God's omniscience framed geographically?
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Personal notes

Scripture text: World English Bible (public domain) — Heavens Declare verified corpus. Every verse on this page is rendered from the verified corpus already ingested into Heavens Declare — not from the discovery article.

Verse discovery: BibleStudyTools — Bible Verses About Flat Earth Secondary topical-index reference used only to seed the verse list. Not the source of Scripture text or lexical claims. Retrieved 2026-07-26.