Job 28:12 But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell?

◄ Job 28:12 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell?

English Standard Version
“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

New American Standard Bible
"But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

King James Bible
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But where can wisdom be found, and where is understanding located?

International Standard Version
"Where can wisdom be found? Where is understanding's home?

American Standard Version
But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?

Darby Bible Translation
But wisdom, where shall it be found? and where is the place of understanding?

Young's Literal Translation
And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where is this, the place of understanding?

Cross References

Job 28:11
He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.

Job 28:23
God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.

Job 28:28
And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

28:12-19 Job here speaks of wisdom and understanding, the knowing and enjoying of God and ourselves. Its worth is infinitely more than all the riches in this world. It is a gift of the Holy Ghost which cannot be bought with money. Let that which is most precious in God's account, be so in ours. Job asks after it as one that truly desired to find it, and despaired of finding it any where but in God; any way but by Divine revelation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. Can man discover the Divine Wisdom by which the world is governed, as he can the treasures hidden in the earth? Certainly not. Divine Wisdom is conceived as a person (Job 28:12-27) distinct from God (Job 28:23; also in Pr 8:23, 27). The Almighty Word, Jesus Christ, we know now, is that Wisdom. The order of the world was originated and is maintained by the breathing forth (Spirit) of Wisdom, unfathomable and unpurchasable by man. In Job 28:28, the only aspect of it, which relates to, and may be understood by, man, is stated.

understanding—insight into the plan of the divine government.