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Job 28

Job 28:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whence
'aiyn (Hebrew #370)
--where? (only in connection with prepositional prefix, whence)
KJV usage: whence, where.
Pronounce: ah-yin'
Origin: probably identical with 369 in the sense of query (compare 336)
m then cometh
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
wisdom
chokmah (Hebrew #2451)
wisdom (in a good sense)
KJV usage: skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
Pronounce: khok-maw'
Origin: from 2449
? and where is the place
maqowm (Hebrew #4725)
also (feminine) mqowmah {mek-o-mah'}; or mqomah {mek-o-mah'}; from 6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
KJV usage: country, X home, X open, place, room, space, X whither(-soever).
Pronounce: maw-kome'
Origin: or maqom {maw-kome'}
of understanding
biynah (Hebrew #998)
understanding
KJV usage: knowledge , meaning, X perfectly, understanding, wisdom.
Pronounce: bee-naw'
Origin: from 995
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Job 28:12• 12But wisdom, where shall it be found? and where is the place of understanding? (Job 28:12)
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James 1:5,17• 5But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:
 17Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning. (James 1:5,17)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 28:12• 12But wisdom, where shall it be found? and where is the place of understanding? (Job 28:12)
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Prov. 2:6• 6For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding. (Prov. 2:6)
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Eccl. 7:23‑24• 23All this have I tried by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
 24Whatever hath been, is far off, and exceeding deep: who will find it out? (Eccl. 7:23‑24)
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1 Cor. 2:6‑15• 6But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.
 7But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:
 8which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)
 9but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,
 10but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
 11For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.
 12But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:
 13which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.
 14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;
 15but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one. (1 Cor. 2:6‑15)
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James 1:5,17• 5But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:
 17Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning. (James 1:5,17)
• Its report (vers. 20-22). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• The question of verse 12 is repeated, not hopelessly, but to show man the futility of a merely natural quest....Nature indeed speaks of wisdom, but does not communicate it. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?