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

Ver. 20. Whence then cometh wisdom? &c.] See Trapp on " Job 28:12 " q.d. Nowhere surely is she to be found but with God, the fountain of wisdom, Job 28:23. To seek her elsewhere is but laborious loss of time; witness the philosophers' anxious, but bootless, disquisitions after the summum bonum, the true blessedness or chief good; about which there were eight various opinions, and yet all out.

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