Job 28:20-28

Living Bible

²⁰ “Then where can we get it? Where can it be found? ²¹ For it is hid from the eyes of all mankind; even the sharp-eyed birds in the sky cannot discover it.

²² “But Destruction and Death speak of knowing something about it! ^23-24 And God surely knows where it is to be found, for he looks throughout the whole earth, under all the heavens. ²⁵ He makes the winds blow and sets the boundaries of the oceans. ²⁶ He makes the laws of the rain and a path for the lightning. ²⁷ He knows where wisdom is and declares it to all who will listen. He established it and examined it thoroughly. ²⁸ And this is what he says to all mankind: ‘Look, to fear the Lord is true wisdom; to forsake evil is real understanding.’”