20-22 “So where does Wisdom come from?
    And where does Insight live?
It can’t be found by looking, no matter
    how deep you dig, no matter how high you fly.
If you search through the graveyard and question the dead,
    they say, ‘We’ve only heard rumors of it.’

23-28 “God alone knows the way to Wisdom,
    he knows the exact place to find it.
He knows where everything is on earth,
    he sees everything under heaven.
After he commanded the winds to blow
    and measured out the waters,
Arranged for the rain
    and set off explosions of thunder and lightning,
He focused on Wisdom,
    made sure it was all set and tested and ready.
Then he addressed the human race: ‘Here it is!
    Fear-of-the-Lord—that’s Wisdom,
    and Insight means shunning evil.’”

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21 It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing,
    concealed even from the birds in the sky.(A)
22 Destruction[a](B) and Death(C) say,
    “Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.”
23 God understands the way to it
    and he alone(D) knows where it dwells,(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:22 Hebrew Abaddon