“Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?”
From where then does wisdom come, and where is the place of understanding, returning to the question posed earlier with intensified urgency, as the catalog of human knowledge and material wealth has failed to locate wisdom. The repetition of the locating question emphasizes that wisdom remains undiscovered despite exhaustive search through all human realms and cosmic territories. The coordination of wisdom and understanding suggests that these remain inseparably linked, that understanding wisdom requires comprehending its location or nature. The verse suggests that wisdom's location is categorically different from the domains previously searched.
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