Job 28:20-28

Wycliffe Bible

²⁰ Therefore whereof cometh wisdom, and which is the place of understanding? (And so from where cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding?)

²¹ It is hid from the eyes of all living men; and also it is hid from the birds of (the) heaven(s), or of the air.

²² Perdition and death said, With our ears we have heard (of) the fame of wisdom.

²³ God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

²⁴ For he beholdeth the ends of the world, and beholdeth all things that be under heaven.

²⁵ He hath made weight to winds (He hath made a counter-weight for the winds), and he hath weighed (the) waters in measure.

²⁶ When he set law to rain, and way to tempests sounding; (When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding tempests;)

²⁷ then he saw wisdom, and told it out, and he made it ready, and sought it out.

²⁸ And he said to man, Lo! the dread of the Lord, that is wisdom (And he said to man, Lo! the fear of the Lord/Lo! reverence for the Lord, that is wisdom); and to go away from evil, (that) is understanding.