Job 28:20-28

Darby Translation

²⁰ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

²¹ For it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the fowl of the heavens.

²² Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.

²³ God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth its place:

²⁴ For he looketh to the ends of the earth, he seeth under the whole heaven.

²⁵ In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,

²⁶ In appointing a statute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash:

²⁷ Then did he see it, and declare it; he established it, yea, and searched it out;

²⁸ And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.