Job 28:12
But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
In Context
11He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
13No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:9Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
Job 28:28And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
Proverbs 2:4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7:24What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
Colossians 2:3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Matthew Henry on Job 28:2-12
Extent of Human Discoveries. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. 3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as… Read the whole commentary →