# Job 28

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###### v1 
"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine. 

###### v2 
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore. 

###### v3 
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. 

###### v4 
He 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. 

###### v5 
As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. 

###### v6 
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold. 

###### v7 
That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it. 

###### v8 
The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there. 

###### v9 
He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots. 

###### v10 
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing. 

###### v11 
He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light. 

###### v12 
"But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding? 

###### v13 
Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living. 

###### v14 
The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.' 

###### v15 
It can't be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price. 

###### v16 
It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 

###### v17 
Gold and glass can't equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 

###### v18 
No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies. 

###### v19 
The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, nor will it be valued with pure gold. 

###### v20 
Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding? 

###### v21 
Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky. 

###### v22 
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.' 

###### v23 
"God understands its way, and he knows its place. 

###### v24 
For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky. 

###### v25 
He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure. 

###### v26 
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, 

###### v27 
then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out. 

###### v28 
To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

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