Job 28:12
Good News Translation
But where can wisdom be found? Where can we learn to understand?

New Revised Standard Version
“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

Contemporary English Version
But where is wisdom found?

New American Bible
As for wisdom—where can she be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?

Job 28:20,28 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? . . .

1 Kings 3:9 Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to judge this people, thy people, which is so numerous?

Psalm 51:6 For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Proverbs 2:4-6 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God: . . .

Proverbs 3:19 By his wisdom the depths have broken out, and the clouds grow thick with dew.

Ecclesiastes 7:23-25 I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me, . . .

1 Corinthians 1:19,20 For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject. . . .

Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

James 1:5,17 But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him. . . .

Context
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
11The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light. 12But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?13Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of them that live in delights.…
Cross References
Job 28:11
The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light.

Job 28:23
God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.

Job 28:28
And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Ecclesiastes 7:24
Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

Job 28:11
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