AB - Job - 28

28:1  For there is a place for the silver, where it comes, and a place for the gold, where it is refined.

28:2  For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone.

28:3  He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

28:4  There is a cutting off the torrent by reason of dust, so they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men.

28:5  As for the earth, out of it shall come bread; under it has been turned up as it were fire.

28:6  Her stones are the place of the sapphire, and her dust supplies man with gold.

28:7  There is a path, the fowl has not known it, neither has the eye of the vulture seen it.

28:8  Neither have the sons of the proud trodden it, a lion has not passed upon it.

28:9  He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp rock, and turned up mountains by the roots;

28:10  and he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, and my eye has seen every precious thing.

28:11  And he has laid bare the depths of rivers, and has brought his power to light.

28:12  But where has wisdom been discovered? And where is the place of understanding?

28:13  A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been discovered among men.

28:14  The depth said, It is not in me, and the sea said, It is not with me.

28:15  One shall not give fine gold instead of it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.

28:16  Neither shall it be compared with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire.

28:17  Gold and crystal shall not be equaled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange.

28:18  Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned, but do you esteem wisdom above the most precious things.

28:19  The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equaled to it; it shall not be compared with pure gold.

28:20  Where then is wisdom found? And of what kind is the place of understanding?

28:21  It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky.

28:22  Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it.

28:23  God has well ordered the way of it, and He knows the place of it.

28:24  For He surveys the whole earth under heaven, knowing the things in the earth;

28:25  all that He has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water.

28:26  When He made them, thus He saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder.

28:27  Then He saw it, and declared it: He prepared it, and traced it out.

28:28  And He said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.