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Verse Job 28:12. _BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND?_] It is most
evident that the terms _wisdom_ and _understanding_ are used here in a
widely different sense from all those arts and sciences which ha...
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BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND? - That is, the full understanding of
the plans of God - for this is the point of inquiry. The object of Job
is to show that it is not to be found in the most profound...
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CHAPTER 28
_ 1. The treasures of the earth (Job 28:1)_
2. The better treasures (Job 28:7)
3. God knoweth the way and the true wisdom (Job 28:23)...
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JOB 28. Here again we come to a critical question. It is difficult to
fit this chapter into the argument, whether Job 27:7 is given to Job
or to Zophar. It is a widely accepted conclusion of scholars...
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The precious ores and costly stones though hidden have a place where
they may be found, and man knows how to reach it and bring that which
is hid to light, but where can Wisdom be found? and where is...
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BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND?— Job continues to give further
instances of the daring and yet successful attempts of mankind, to
provide themselves with every necessary and conveniency of life; such...
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2. But where wisdom is, man cannot discover; only God knows. (Job
28:12-28)
TEXT 28:12-28
12 BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND?
And where is the place of understanding?
13 Man knoweth not the price...
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_BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND? AND WHERE IS THE PLACE OF
UNDERSTANDING?_ _ BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND? AND WHERE IS THE
PLACE OF UNDERSTANDING?_
Can man discover the Divine Wisdom by which the...
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THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE WISDOM
In this famous chapter Job declares that Wisdom—that is, the
principle of the divine government of the world—is a mystery not to
be solved by man. Man's wisdom lies in fea...
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This man has many skills. But he is still a fool. He may discover gold
and silver. He may become rich. But wisdom is better than gold or
silver. If the man does not learn to be wise, that man is stupi...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
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CHAPTER 28
JOB’S POEM ABOUT WISDOM...
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BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND? — With magnificent effect comes in
this question, after the gigantic achievements of man just recounted;
notwithstanding his industry, science, and skill, he is altoge...
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וְֽ֭ הַ חָכְמָה מֵ אַ֣יִן תִּמָּצֵ֑א
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XXIII.
CHORAL INTERLUDE
Job 28:1
THE controversy at length closed, the poet breaks into a chant of the
quest of Wisdom. It can hardly be supposed to have been uttered or
sung by Job. But if we may g...
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THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
Job 28:1
A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age.
Job compares it with the search of the miner for the hidden treasures
of the earth, Job 28:1. T...
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In a fine passage Job now discussed the question of wisdom. What was
supremely lacking in his friends' dealing with him was wisdom to
understand. As an introduction to the main statement of his argume...
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But where shall wisdom be found? (h) and where [is] the place of
understanding?
(h) Though God's power and wisdom may be understood in earthly things,
yet his heavenly wisdom cannot be attained to....
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_Understanding, of supernatural things, which teaches us to love God,
and to comprehend his counsels. This is very different from the human
sagacity of which he has been speaking; and this is the gift...
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(12) But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of
understanding?
This is a sweet verse, and a question involving in it everything
important. What wisdom can it be supposed Job means? Not...
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_A BRILLIANT CHAPTER_
‘Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where
they fine it.… But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the
place of understanding?’ etc.
Job 28:1; Job...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND?.... Though there is a vein for
silver, a track where that lies, and is to be come at, and a place
where gold is found, and where it may be refined, and parts of the
ea...
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But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of
understanding?
Ver. 12. _But where shall wisdom be found?_] Here is now the other
part of the antithesis, and the second part of the chapt...
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_But where shall wisdom be found?_ I confess that man hath one kind of
wisdom, and that in a great degree, namely, to discover the works of
nature, and to perform the operations of art; but as for tha...
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God Alone The Possessor of True Wisdom.
Over against man's foolish quest for vain and unstable riches Job
places the wisdom of God, unattainable by the outward seeking and
searching of men....
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But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of
understanding? True wisdom, the understanding of God, the knowledge of
the revelation of God, is the highest good of man....
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EARTH'S MEASURED TREASURES
(vv.1-6)
Job has spoken of the folly of wicked men. Now he shows that which
stands in beautiful contrast to Chapter 27. The language here is
magnificent, as Job considers...
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Yet in spite of man's technological marvels, man cannot dig into God's
hidden or secret wisdom (Deuteronomy 29:29). In fact, for man to know
anything about the ways of God, God must reveal it to man ...
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12-19 Job here speaks of wisdom and understanding, the knowing and
enjoying of God and ourselves. Its worth is infinitely more than all
the riches in this world. It is a gift of the Holy Ghost which c...
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Job 28:12 where H370 wisdom H2451 found H4672 (H8735) place H4725
understanding H998
Job 28:20,...
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Job 28:1 , JOB 28:12; JOB 28:20
This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two
sections being terminated by this question, with a slight variety of
statement: "Whence then cometh wisd...
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Job 28:12
Every man has, down in the depths of his own being, a wisdom much
greater than the wisdom of the life which he is living, or of the
thoughts which he is already thinking.
I. There is a cons...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The value of divine wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: To be truly religious is to be truly wise. If we know God,
His wisdom will appear in the prac...
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Job 28:2. _Brass is molten,_ melted out of ores of zinc, lapis
calaminaris, light perforated ores, found on Mendip hills in Somerset,
Derbyshire, and other places.
Job 28:4. _The flood breaketh out fr...
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_But where shall wisdom be found?_
THE SPECULATIVE DIFFICULTIES OF AN INQUIRING INTELLECT SOLVED BY THE
HEART OF PRACTICAL PIETY
Two things are prominently developed in this chapter--Man’s power
and...
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_The thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light._
THE RELIGIOUS USES AND LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE
I. The religious uses of science. “The thing that is hid man
bringeth forth to light.” Some think th...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 28:12 BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND? (Compare v.
Job 28:20.) With all the negative statements in these verses, the
answer is that true wisdom is unknown to m
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_JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOM_
The place occupied by this chapter one peculiar to itself. Its
connection with the preceding or succeeding portions of the book by no
means obvious. Appears scarcely to...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 28:1
The connection of this chapter with the preceding is somewhat obscure.
Probably we are to regard Job as led to see, even while he is
justifying God's ways with sinners (Job 27:8),...
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Now, Job said, turning now to a different vein of thought, he said,
"Now, there are places where gold is discovered and silver is
discovered, and iron and brass, men dig the shafts, they follow the
ve...
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1 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Kings 3:9; Colossians 2:3;...
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That wisdom — Man hath one kind of wisdom, to discover the works of
nature, and to perform the operations of art; but as for that sublime
wisdom which consists in the knowledge of God and ourselves, n...