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# Job 28

[1](#verse-1) “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

[2](#verse-2) Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

[3](#verse-3) Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

[4](#verse-4) 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.

[5](#verse-5) As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

[6](#verse-6) Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

[7](#verse-7) That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

[8](#verse-8) The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

[9](#verse-9) He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

[10](#verse-10) He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

[11](#verse-11) He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

[12](#verse-12) “But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

[13](#verse-13) Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.

[14](#verse-14) The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

[15](#verse-15) It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.

[16](#verse-16) It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

[17](#verse-17) Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

[18](#verse-18) No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

[19](#verse-19) The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it. It won’t be valued with pure gold.

[20](#verse-20) Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

[21](#verse-21) Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

[22](#verse-22) Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

[23](#verse-23) “God understands its way, and he knows its place.

[24](#verse-24) For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

[25](#verse-25) He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

[26](#verse-26) When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

[27](#verse-27) then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

[28](#verse-28) To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

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