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Job 28:12

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof: neither is it found in the land of them that live pleasantly. But because the declarations of God are, without His wisdom, never fathomed at all, (for except him who hath received His Spirit, none knoweth in any sort His words,) the holy man adds words touching the subject of searching out that same Wisdom of God. It is first to be noted, that two points be proposed to himself, and two he adds making answer. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVIII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Since he had shown that all the precious things found in corporeal bodies are contained in determined places, which though they are unknown to men are still known to God, he shows the eminence of wisdom by first introducing the fact that it is not contained in a determined place, and so he says, "But where is wisdom found?" This is as if he says: Wisdom is shut up in no corporeal place because it is not something corporeal. …

Commentary on Job ↗

Bonaventure

Job raises the question of where wisdom may be found; and he answers negatively, that it is not found by a man living in a merely human manner, saying: 'Man does not know its price, nor is it found in the land of those who live pleasantly.' That last statement gives the reason: this is the cause why the carnal man does not know the price of wisdom, because the carnal man does not perceive the savor of wisdom; nor can a man know wisdom unless he finds its savor; and he does not find savor in it if he lives delicately, because carnal …

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 7 ↗