Job 28:12

World English Bible (2000)

"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 28:20 : 20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But 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.
  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Every 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.
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?"
  • Job 28:28 : 28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
  • Prov 2:4-6 : 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: 5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
  • Prov 3:19 : 19 By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.
  • Eccl 7:23-25 : 23 All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me. 24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? 25 I 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.
  • 1 Cor 1:19-20 : 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • Col 2:3 : 3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 28:20-21
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    20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

    21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

  • Job 28:13-15
    3 verses
    86%

    13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

    14 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

    15 It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

  • Job 38:18-20
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    18 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

    20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

  • Prov 8:1-2
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    1 Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?

    2 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

  • Job 38:36-37
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    36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

    37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

  • Eccl 7:24-25
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    24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

    25 I 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.

  • Prov 8:11-12
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    11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

    12 "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

  • Job 12:12-13
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    12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

    13 "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

  • Job 28:27-28
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    27 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

    28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

  • Job 28:23
    76%

    23 "God understands its way, and he knows its place.

  • Job 42:3
    76%

    3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

  • Prov 3:13-14
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    13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

    14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

  • Job 38:4
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    4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

  • Prov 2:3-6
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    3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

    4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

    5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

    6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

  • Job 28:11
    75%

    11 He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

  • Job 11:7-8
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    7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

    8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

  • Prov 4:7
    74%

    7 Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

  • 1 Cor 1:20
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    20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

  • Job 28:1
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    1 "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

  • Job 12:3
    74%

    3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

  • Job 26:3
    74%

    3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

  • Job 32:13
    73%

    13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

  • Prov 16:16
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    16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

  • Job 6:13
    73%

    13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • Job 38:16
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    16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • Prov 1:2
    73%

    2 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

  • Prov 17:16
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    16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

  • Prov 30:3
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    3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • Eccl 8:1
    73%

    1 Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

  • Job 20:4
    72%

    4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,