20Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
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But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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.
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)The question which Job had asked (Job 28:12) he asks again here; for it is too worthy, too weighty, to be let fall, until we speed in the enquiry. Concerning this we must seek till we find, till we get some satisfactory account of it. By a diligent prosecution of this enquiry he brings it, at length, to this issue, that there is a twofold wisdom, one hidden in God , which is secret and belongs not…
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