Job 28:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

Job 28:12 —

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Cross-References

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James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Job 28:20
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Proverbs 2:4-6
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; …
Proverbs 3:19
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Colossians 2:3
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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Commentary

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

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, un…