Job 28

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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.

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