Job 28:1WEB
“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
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Job 28:1WEB
“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
Job 28:2WEB
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
Job 28:3WEB
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
Job 28:4WEB
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.
Job 28:5WEB
As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
Job 28:6WEB
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
Job 28:7WEB
That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
Job 28:8WEB
The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
Job 28:9WEB
He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
Job 28:10WEB
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
Job 28:11WEB
He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
Job 28:12WEB
“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:13WEB
Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.
Job 28:14WEB
The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’
Job 28:15WEB
It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.
Job 28:16WEB
It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job 28:17WEB
Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
Job 28:18WEB
No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job 28:19WEB
The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it. It won’t be valued with pure gold.
Job 28:20WEB
Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:21WEB
Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
Job 28:22WEB
Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
Job 28:23WEB
“God understands its way, and he knows its place.
Job 28:24WEB
For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.
Job 28:25WEB
He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
Job 28:26WEB
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
Job 28:27WEB
then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.
Job 28:28WEB
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.