Passage Overview · Free · Job 28:15–19
But Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
Job 28:12–22 — “But Where Can Wisdom Be Found?.”
WHAT IS HAPPENING The mining poem contrasts human technical brilliance with the impossibility of extracting wisdom from the earth like ore. Wisdom belongs to God, and for human beings its practical center is fearing the Lord and turning away from evil.
THIS MOVEMENT The section’s own focus is “But Where Can Wisdom Be Found?.” It begins, “But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?” and closes, “Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.”.