and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,(A)
    for true wisdom has two sides.
    Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.(B)

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That He would show you the secrets of wisdom!
For they would double your prudence.
Know therefore that (A)God [a]exacts from you
Less than your iniquity deserves.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:6 Lit. forgets some of your iniquity for you

12 But where can wisdom be found?(A)
    Where does understanding dwell?(B)

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12 “But(A) where can wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?

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20 Where then does wisdom come from?
    Where does understanding dwell?(A)

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20 “From(A) where then does wisdom come?
And where is the place of understanding?

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23 God understands the way to it
    and he alone(A) knows where it dwells,(B)

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23 God understands its way,
And He knows its place.

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36 Who gives the ibis wisdom[a](A)
    or gives the rooster understanding?[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:36 That is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile
  2. Job 38:36 That is, understanding of when to crow; the meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

36 (A)Who has put wisdom in [a]the mind?
Or who has given understanding to the heart?

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  1. Job 38:36 Lit. the inward parts

Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
    you taught me wisdom(A) in that secret place.(B)

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Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.

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For the Lord gives wisdom;(A)
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.(B)

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(A)For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;

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26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom,(A) knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth(B) to hand it over to the one who pleases God.(C) This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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26 For God gives (A)wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that (B)he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

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