Job 28:20-27

Contemporary English Version

²⁰ Where then is wisdom?
²¹ It is hidden from human eyes
    and even from birds.
²² Death and destruction
have merely heard rumors
    about where it is found.
^23 (A) God is the only one who knows
    the way to wisdom;
²⁴ he alone sees everything
    beneath the heavens.
²⁵ When God divided out
    the wind and the water,
²⁶ and when he decided the path
    for rain and lightning,
^27 (B) he also determined the truth
    and defined wisdom.