Job 28:21
“Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.”
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
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.
Related Verses
“There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:”
“The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.”
“No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.”
“God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.”
“For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.”