(12) But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
This is a sweet verse, and a question involving in it everything important. What wisdom can it be supposed Job means? Not human wisdom, or the discovery of things around. For Job had before laid it down, that the vein of silver was found, and the place of gold. Is it not JESUS that is here folded up in the word Wisdom? The Apostle was commissioned by the HOLY GHOST to tell the church, that CHRIST is the wisdom of GOD, and the power of GOD; for in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge: 1 Corinthians 1:24; Colossians 2:3. Neither is this all: for in that most sublime chapter, in the book of the Proverbs, under the character of Wisdom, there is a character introduced which can be applied to none but the Son of GOD: Proverbs 8:1-36. to the end. Reader, pray turn to those scriptures, and, after diligent perusal, beg of Him, who alone knoweth the Son, to be your teacher on this precious subject. Matthew 11:27.