Job 28:20-28

Authorized (King James) Version

²⁰ Whence then cometh wisdom?
and where is the place of understanding?
²¹ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,
and kept close from the fowls of the air.
²² Destruction and death say,
We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
²³ God understandeth the way thereof,
and he knoweth the place thereof.
²⁴ For he looketh to the ends of the earth,
and seeth under the whole heaven;
²⁵ to make the weight for the winds;
and he weigheth the waters by measure.
²⁶ When he made a decree for the rain,
and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
²⁷ then did he see it, and declare it;
he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
²⁸ And unto man he said,
Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
and to depart from evil is understanding.