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The Book of Job, Chapter 28, Verse 20

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The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
King James Version
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?
American Standard Version
Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
New English Translation
God Alone Has Wisdom“But wisdom– where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding?
World English Bible
Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
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Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
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Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
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For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven;
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To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
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When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
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And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.
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Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;