Job 28:12
“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
In Context
11He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
13Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:9Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
Job 28:28To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
Proverbs 2:4if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7:24That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
Colossians 2:3in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
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 →