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Job 28:20 KJV
Job · chapter 28 · verse 20
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?Job 28:20 · King James Version
Job 28:20 in context
18No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
22Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- Whenceʼayinwhere?H370 →
- comethbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- wisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- placemâqôwmproperly, a standingH4725 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-28