Job 28:12

WEB

¹²“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

KJV

¹²But where^[+] shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

BSB

¹²But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?

FBV

¹²But where can wisdom be found?^[+] Where is the place to gain understanding?

Extra References

Job 28:20

²⁰Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

⁴if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; ⁵then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶^[+] For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

James 1:5

⁵But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Proverbs 3:19

¹⁹By wisdom the LORD founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

¹⁹For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

²⁰Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Colossians 2:3

³in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

James 1:17

¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.

Ecclesiastes 7:23-25

²³All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me. ²⁴That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? ²⁵I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Job 28:28

²⁸To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord,^[+] that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

Psalms 51:6

⁶Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.