Job 28:20
Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
In Context
19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, nor shall it be valued with pure gold.
21Since it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the birds of the heavens.
Cross References
Job 28:23God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
Proverbs 2:6For LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth [is] knowledge and understanding.
1 Corinthians 2:6But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.
James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.
Matthew Henry on Job 28:13-20
The Excellency of Wisdom. ( b. c. 1520.) 14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. 15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. 19 The topaz of Ethiopia… Read the whole commentary →