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Job 28:20

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Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

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  1. Job 28:18

    No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

  2. Job 28:19

    The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

  3. Job 28:21

    Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

  4. Job 28:22

    Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.