Job 28:20

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:20-28

Job 28:1 , Job 28:12-13 , Job 28:20-28 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 wisdom?" and the last by the result of the investigation. I. The first of these sections is occupied with the abstruseness and marvellousness of human discoveries. Job speaks of the discovery of natural objects gems for the monarch's brow, metals for the husbandman, minerals for the physician... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 28:1-28

Chapter 28Now, 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 vein of gold and so forth. And they mine these things out of the earth. He digs, overturns the rocks, digs his caves. It's places that the birds don't know. The vultures haven't seen it. But he follows down through the vein, finding the gold, the silver and all."But where shall wisdom be... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:1-28

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 from the inhabitant. Rumpit alveum de cum pede montis; words equivalent to the text of Moses. “The fountains of the great deep were broken up.” Numerous are the proofs which the book of Job exhibits, that he and Moses, the prince of Hebrew prophets, derived knowledge from the same traditions.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:12-28

Job 28:12-28But where shall wisdom be found?The speculative difficulties of an inquiring intellect solved by the heart of practical pietyTwo things are prominently developed in this chapter--Man’s power and his weakness; his power to supply the material necessities of his nature, and his weakness to supply his mental cravings.I. Every inquiring intellect has difficulties which it is anxious to remove. Two classes of intellectual difficulties--those connected with the physical realm of being,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:20-21

Job 28:20-21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living. Mystery and dogmaIt is the dogmatism of science that stands in the way of the much-needed reconciliation, even more than the dogmatism of theology. Nothing is so hostile to mystery as dogmatism. The sense of mystery is the sense of vastness, indefiniteness, grandeur. The moment you come with your dogmas to measure and explain everything, that moment the mystery, the vastness, the grandeur, begin to vanish. Rightly understood, the facts... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 28:20

Job 28:20 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. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 28:20

Job 28:12, Proverbs 2:6, Ecclesiastes 7:23, Ecclesiastes 7:24, 1 Corinthians 2:6-Ezra :, James 1:5, James 1:17 Reciprocal: Job 12:13 - wisdom Job 12:22 - discovereth Job 36:3 - fetch Job 37:19 - we read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 28:20

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?Whence, … — By a diligent inquiry, we find at length, that there is a twofold wisdom; one hid in God, which belongs not to us, the other revealed to man, which belongs to us and to our children. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 28:20

20. Whence… cometh wisdom Job repeats his question that he may, if possible, enforce a reply. The varied gems of beauty that adorn this subject may have been in the mind of Paul when he speaks of “the manifold,” πολυποικιλος , (literally, much variegated,) “wisdom of God.” Wisdom is pure, one in essence, “one in sublime unity of truth and purpose;” transmitted through the Church, it becomes “chromatic, so to speak, with the rainbow colours of that light which in itself is one and... read more

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