Job 28:20-28

The Voice

²⁰    Then from where does wisdom come?
        Where does understanding dwell?
²¹    She is hidden away from every eye,
        even from birds looking down from the sky.
²²    Destruction and Death have both confessed,
        “Rumors are all we know about her.”

²³    God understands wisdom’s path and way;
        her place is known to Him alone.
²⁴    For He gazes out to the edge of the earth,
        sees all that falls beneath the sky overhead.
²⁵    He lent the wind its weight and force
        and measured out the waters’ spread.
²⁶    When He set a limit on the rain that falls
        and made the thunderbolt a road to race,
²⁷    Then He saw wisdom and made her known,
        He settled her and searched out for her a place.
²⁸    And to humankind, He said, “Now, the fear of the Lord is wisdom,
        and to depart from evil is understanding.”