Job 28:12

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He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light.	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 the living.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

But where^H370 shall wisdom^H2451 be found^H4672? and where is the place^H4725 of understanding^H998?

Original Hebrew

וְהַחָכְמָה מֵאַיִן תִּמָּצֵא וְאֵי זֶה מְקֹום בִּינָה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְֽ֭/הַ/חָכְמָה	Ve./ha./cha.khe.mah	H2451	HC/Td/Ncfsa	and/ (the)/ wisdom
מֵ/אַ֣יִן	me./'A.yin	H370	HR/Ti	from/ where?
תִּמָּצֵ֑א	ti.ma.Tze'	H4672	HVNi3fs	will it be found
וְ/אֵ֥י	ve./'Ei	H335	HC/Ti	and/ where?
זֶ֝ה	zeh	H2088	HPdxms	this
מְק֣וֹם	me.Kom	H4725	HNcmsc	(is the) place of
בִּינָֽה	bi.Nah	H998	HNcfsa	understanding

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H370 — אַיִן (ʼayin, ah-yin'): probably identical with אַיִן in the sense of query (compare אִיlemma אי missing vowel, corrected to אִי); where? (only in connection with prepositional prefix, whence); whence, where.
H998 — בִּינָה (bîynâh, bee-naw'): from בִּין; understanding; knowledge, meaning, [idiom] perfectly, understanding, wisdom.
H2451 — חׇכְמָה (chokmâh, khok-maw'): from חָכַם; wisdom (in a good sense); skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
H4672 — מָצָא (mâtsâʼ, maw-tsaw'): a primitive root; properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present; [phrase] be able, befall, being, catch, [idiom] certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), [idiom] have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-) on, meet (with), [idiom] occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
H4725 — מָקוֹם (mâqôwm, maw-kome'): or מָקֹם; also (feminine) מְקוֹמָה; or מְקֹמָה; from קוּם; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind); country, [idiom] home, [idiom] open, place, room, space, [idiom] whither(-soever).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H335 — אַי (ʼay, ah'ee): perhaps from אַיִן; where? hence how?; how, what, whence, where, whether, which (way).
H2088 — זֶה (zeh, zeh): a primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that; he, [idiom] hence, [idiom] here, it(-self), [idiom] now, [idiom] of him, the one...the other, [idiom] than the other, ([idiom] out of) the (self) same, such (a one) that, these, this (hath, man), on this side...on that side, [idiom] thus, very, which. Compare זֹאת, זֹה, זוֹ, זוּ.

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