Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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Study Note
The conclusion of Job's 'Hymn to Wisdom' — 'the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding' — provides a relational rather than intellectual definition of the wisdom that neither Job nor his friends can locate in the cosmos (verses 12-27). The poem's structure first establishes that wisdom is inaccessible to human mining and searching before declaring that God alone knows its place and has disclosed a path to it through the fear of the LORD. The near-identical formulation in Proverbs 1:7 ('the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom') makes this the shared axiom of the wisdom tradition, situating understanding within relationship rather than independent intellectual quest. The verse answers the poem's unanswerable question ('where shall wisdom be found?') not with a location but with a posture: reverence before the Creator who possesses and bestows wisdom.
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And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.
And He saith to man: --`Lo, fear of the Lord, that <FI>is<Fi> wisdom, And to turn from evil <FI>is<Fi> understanding.'
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
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