24for he looks throughout the whole earth

and sees everything under the heavens.

25He decided how hard the winds should blow

and how much rain should fall.

26He made the laws for the rain

and laid out a path for the lightning.

27Then he saw wisdom and evaluated it.

He set it in place and examined it thoroughly.

28And this is what he says to all humanity:

‘The fear of the Lord is true wisdom;

to forsake evil is real understanding.’”