Job 28:23
Good News Translation
God alone knows the way, Knows the place where wisdom is found,

New Revised Standard Version
“God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.

Contemporary English Version
God is the only one who knows the way to wisdom;

New American Bible
But God understands the way to her; it is he who knows her place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.

Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.

Proverbs 2:6 He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,

Proverbs 8:14 By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

Luke 10:21,22 In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight. . . .

Acts 15:18 To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

Jude 1:25 To the only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory and magnificence, empire and power, before all ages, and now, and for all ages of ages. Amen.

Context
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
22Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof. 23God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.24For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven.…
Cross References
Job 9:4
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

Job 28:12
But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?

Job 28:20
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

Proverbs 8:22
I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made.

Job 28:22
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