The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: price of wisdom is above rubies.
JOB 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be
valued with pure gold.
JOB 28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of
understanding?
JOB 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close
from the fowls of the air.
JOB 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof
with our ears.
JOB 28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place
thereof.
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