King James Version (KJV) Authorized Version 1611
Read Full Chapter (Job 28) Job 28:21-23 KJV
"Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof."
Job Chapter 28, Verse 21-23
Job 28:21-23 in Context (Verses 18–26 KJV)
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No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.*
19
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20
Whence then cometh wisdom? and 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: