Job 28:20

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

Job 28:20 Meaning and Commentary

Job 28:20

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. (See Gill on Job 28:12).

Job 28:20 In-Context

18 High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places.

19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest dyeing.

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

21 It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not.

22 Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.