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Job 28

¹"Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

²Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is smelted out of the ore.

³Man sets an end to darkness, And searches out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

⁴He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

⁵As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

⁶Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

⁷That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon`s eye seen it.

⁸The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

⁹He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, And he overturns the mountains by the roots.

¹⁰He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

¹¹He binds the streams that they don`t trickle; The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

¹²"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

¹³Man doesn`t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

¹⁴The deep says, `It isn`t in me.` The sea says, `It isn`t with me.`

¹⁵It can`t be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

¹⁶It can`t be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

¹⁷Gold and glass can`t equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

¹⁸No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

¹⁹The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

²⁰Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?

²¹Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the sky.

²²Destruction and Death say, `We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.`

²³"God understands its way, And he knows its place.

²⁴For he looks to the ends of the earth, And sees under the whole sky.

²⁵He establishes the force of the wind; Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

²⁶When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

²⁷Then did he see it, and declare it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

²⁸To man he said, `Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.`"

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Chapter 28

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