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Job 28
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where
they fine it.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the
stone.
3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection:
the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters
forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned
up as it were fire.
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of
gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's
eye hath not seen:
8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed
by it.
9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the
mountains by the roots.
10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every
precious thing.
11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is
hid bringeth he forth to light.
12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of
understanding?
13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the
land of the living.
14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not
with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
for the price thereof.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious
onyx, or the sapphire.
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it
shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price
of wisdom is above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be
valued with pure gold.
20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of
understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close
from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with
our ears.
23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place
thereof.
24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the
whole heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by
measure.
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning
of the thunder:
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and
searched it out.
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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