Job 28:20-28

Common English Bible

²⁰ But wisdom, where does she come from?
    Where is the place of understanding?
²¹ She’s hidden from the eyes of all the living,
    concealed from birds of the sky.
²² Destruction^[a] and Death have said,
    “We’ve heard a report of her.”
²³ God understands her way;
        he knows her place;
²⁴     for he looks to the ends of the earth
        and surveys everything beneath the heavens.
²⁵ In order to weigh the wind,
        to prepare a measure for waters,
²⁶     when he made a decree for the rain,
        a path for thunderbolts,
²⁷     then he observed it, spoke of it,
            established it, searched it out,
²⁸     and said to humankind: “Look,
        the fear of the Lord is wisdom;
            turning from evil is understanding.”