Job 28:20-28

Revised Standard Version

²⁰ “Whence then comes wisdom?
    And where is the place of understanding?
²¹ It is hid from the eyes of all living,
    and concealed from the birds of the air.
²² Abaddon and Death say,
    ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

²³ “God understands the way to it,
    and he knows its place.
²⁴ For he looks to the ends of the earth,
    and sees everything under the heavens.
²⁵ When he gave to the wind its weight,
    and meted out the waters by measure;
²⁶ when he made a decree for the rain,
    and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
²⁷ then he saw it and declared it;
    he established it, and searched it out.
²⁸ And he said to man,
‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
    and to depart from evil is understanding.’”