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The Book of Job, Chapter 28, Verse 21

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Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?
King James Version
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
American Standard Version
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.
New English Translation
For it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.
World English Bible
Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
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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;
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When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;