Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
That is, the abodes of destruction and of the dead. "Death" put for Sheol (Job 30:23; Job 26:6; Psalms 9:13).
We have [only] heard—the report of her. We have not seen 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 (Ecclesiastes 9:10).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 28:22:
Job 30:23
Isaiah 38:18
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