Job 28:12

1 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Kings 3:9; Colossians 2:3; Ecclesiastes 7:23-25; James 1:17; James 1:5; Job 28:20; Job 28:28; Proverbs 2:4-6; Proverbs 3:19; Psalms 51:6

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But where shall wisdom be found? - That is, the full understanding of the plans of God - for this is the point of inquiry. The object of Job is t...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

But where shall wisdom be found? (h) and where [is] the place of understanding? (h) Though God's power and wisdom may be understood in earthly thing...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 28. Here again we come to a critical question. It is difficult to fit this chapter into the argument, whether Job 27:7-23 is given to Job or...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? But where shall wisdom be found? - It is most evident that the terms wisd...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But where shall wisdom be found?— Job continues to give further instances of the daring and yet successful attempts of mankind, to provide themselv...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understan...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Mystery of Divine Wisdom In this famous chapter Job declares that Wisdom—that is, the principle of the divine government of the world—is a mys...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But where shall wisdom be found? — With magnificent effect comes in this question, after the gigantic achievements of man just recounted; notwithst...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXIII. CHORAL INTERLUDE Job 28:1-28 THE controversy at length closed, the poet breaks into a chant of the quest of Wisdom. It can hardly be su...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Pearl of Great Price Job 28:1-28 A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age. Job compares it with the search of t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In a fine passage Job now discussed the question of wisdom. What was supremely lacking in his friends' dealing with him was wisdom to understand. As...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 impo...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

A BRILLIANT CHAPTER ‘Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.… But where shall wisdom be found? and where i...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But where shall wisdom be found ?.... Though there is a vein for silver, a track where that lies, and is to be come at, and a place where gold is fo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding? Ver. 12. But where shall wisdom be found? ] Here is now the other part...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But where shall wisdom be found? I confess that man hath one kind of wisdom, and that in a great degree, namely, to discover the works of nature, a...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

EARTH'S MEASURED TREASURES (vv.1-6) Job has spoken of the folly of wicked men. Now he shows that which stands in beautiful contrast to Chapter 2...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Excellency of Wisdom. B. C. 1520. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Wisdom, Heb. that wisdom ; for here is an article which seems to be emphatical. The sense is, I confess that man hath one kind of wisdom in a grea...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOM The place occupied by this chapter one peculiar to itself. Its connection with the preceding or succeeding portions...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Job 28:12 Every man has, down in the depths of his own being, a wisdom much greater than the wisdom of the life which he is living, or of the thou...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Job 28:1 , Job 28:12-13 ; Job 28:20-28 This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two sections being terminated by this ques...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 28:2 . Brass is molten, melted out of ores of zinc, lapis calaminaris, light perforated ores, found on Mendip hills in Somerset, Derbyshire, a...
The Biblical Illustrator

The thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. The religious uses and limitations of science I. The religious uses of science. “The thing th...
The Biblical Illustrator

But where shall wisdom be found? The speculative difficulties of an inquiring intellect solved by the heart of practical piety Two things are p...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 28:1-18 The connection of this chapter with the preceding is somewhat obscure. Probably we are to regard Job as led to see,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? True wisdom, the understanding of God, the knowledge of the revelation of G...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God Alone The Possessor of True Wisdom. Over against man's foolish quest for vain and unstable riches Job places the wisdom of God, unattainable by...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

That wisdom — Man hath one kind of wisdom, to discover the works of nature, and to perform the operations of art; but as for that sublime wisdom wh...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 28:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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