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King James Version

Job 28:20

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ignorance;   Readings, Select;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Call, Divine;   God's;   Wisdom;   Wisdom-Folly;   The Topic Concordance - Hiding;   Knowledge;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom literature;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Understanding;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wise, Wisdom;   Holman Bible Dictionary - God;   Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mining and Metals;   Wisdom;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Winter ;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
"But do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding?
English Revised Version
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Update Bible Version
From where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
New Century Version
"So where does wisdom come from, and where does understanding live?
New English Translation
"But wisdom—where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding?
Webster's Bible Translation
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?
World English Bible
Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?
Amplified Bible
"From where then does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?
English Standard Version
"From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor wherof cometh wisdom, and which is the place of vndurstondyng?
Berean Standard Bible
From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
Contemporary English Version
Where then is wisdom?
American Standard Version
Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
Bible in Basic English
From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?
Complete Jewish Bible
"So where does wisdom come from? where is the source of understanding,
Darby Translation
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Easy-to-Read Version
"So where does wisdom come from? Where can we find understanding?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
King James Version (1611)
Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
New Life Bible
Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
New Revised Standard
"Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding,
George Lamsa Translation
Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
Good News Translation
Where, then, is the source of wisdom? Where can we learn to understand?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whence then cometh, wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Revised Standard Version
"Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whence then commeth wysdome? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Whence then is wisdom found? and of what kind is the place of understanding?
Christian Standard Bible®
Where then does wisdom come from,and where is understanding located?
Hebrew Names Version
Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?
Lexham English Bible
Indeed, from where does wisdom come? And where in the world is the place of understanding?
Literal Translation
Where then does wisdom come from, and where is the place of understanding?
Young's Literal Translation
And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where [is] this, the place of understanding?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From whece then commeth wy?dome? & where is the place of vnderstondinge?
THE MESSAGE
"So where does Wisdom come from? And where does Insight live? It can't be found by looking, no matter how deep you dig, no matter how high you fly. If you search through the graveyard and question the dead, they say, ‘We've only heard rumors of it.'
New American Standard Bible
"Where then does wisdom come from? And where is this place of understanding?
New King James Version
"From where then does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?
Legacy Standard Bible
Where then does wisdom come from?And where is the place of understanding?

Contextual Overview

20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; 25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. 26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: 27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. 28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord , that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 28:12, Proverbs 2:6, Ecclesiastes 7:23, Ecclesiastes 7:24, 1 Corinthians 2:6-15, James 1:5, James 1:17

Reciprocal: Job 12:13 - wisdom Job 12:22 - discovereth Job 36:3 - fetch Job 37:19 - we

Cross-References

Genesis 28:1
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy mother's brother.
Genesis 28:3
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
Genesis 28:7
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
Genesis 28:10
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 28:15
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Genesis 28:20
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
1 Samuel 1:11
And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?] The same questions as in Job 28:12; repeated to set forth the superior excellency of wisdom, and to carry on the discourse, and lead on to other things concerning it.

Job 28:12- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whence then cometh wisdom? - This question is now repeated from Job 28:12, in order to give it greater emphasis. It is designed to fix the attention on the inquiry as one which found no solution in the discoveries of science, and whose solution was hidden from the most penetrating human intellect.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 28:20. Whence then cometh wisdom? — Nearly the same words as in Job 28:12, where see the note.


 
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