Job 28

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Silver has its mines, and gold a place for refining.	1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
2 Iron is extracted from the earth, the smelted rocks yield copper.	2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
3 Man makes an end of darkness, to the utmost limit he digs the black rock in shadow dark as death.	3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4 Foreigners bore into ravines in unfrequented places, swinging suspended far from human beings.	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 That earth from which bread comes is ravaged underground by fire.	5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6 There, the rocks have veins of sapphire and their dust contains gold.	6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7 That is a path unknown to birds of prey, unseen by the eye of any vulture;	7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
8 a path not trodden by the lordly beasts, where no lion ever walked.	8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9 Man attacks the flint, upturning mountains by their roots.	9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
10 He cuts canals through the rock, on the watch for anything precious.	10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
11 He explores the sources of rivers, bringing hidden things to light.	11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
12 But where does Wisdom come from? Where is Intel igence to be found?	12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
13 No human being knows the way to her, she is not to be found on earth where they live.	13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14 'She is not in me,' says the Abyss; 'Nor here,' replies the Sea.	14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
15 She cannot be bought with solid gold, nor paid for with any weight of silver,	15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
16 nor valued against gold of Ophir, precious agate or sapphire.	16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 Neither gold nor glass compares with her, for her, a vase of fine gold would be no exchange,	17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
18 let alone coral or crystal: better go fishing for Wisdom than for pearls!	18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
19 Topaz from Cush is worthless in comparison, and gold, even refined, is valueless.	19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20 But where does Wisdom come from? Where is Intel igence to be found?	20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21 She cannot be seen by any living creature, she is hidden from the birds of the sky.	21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
22 Perdition and Death both say, 'We have heard only rumours of her.'	22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 God alone understands her path and knows where she is to be found.	23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24 (For he sees to the remotest parts of the earth, and observes al that lies under heaven.)	24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
25 When he wil ed to give weight to the wind and measured out the waters with a gauge,	25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
26 when he imposed a law on the rain and mapped a route for thunderclaps to fol ow,	26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
27 then he saw and evaluated her, looked her through and through, assessing her.	27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28 Then he said to human beings, 'Wisdom? - that is fear of the Lord; Intel igence? - avoidance of evil.'	28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.