King James Version (KJV)
Job 28:20
“Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?”
Verse in context — Job 28
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No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.
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The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
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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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