Jubilee2000 - Job - 28

28:1  Surely there is a mine for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they refine [it].

28:2  Iron is taken out of the dust, and bronze [is] melted [out of] the stone.

28:3  He set a border unto the darkness, and unto every perfect work that he made, he [placed] a stone of darkness and shadow of death.

28:4  The river breaks forth next to the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot, that were higher than man, are gone away.

28:5  Land out of which bread comes forth, and underneath it shall be as [if] it were converted in fire.

28:6  A place where its stones shall be sapphires; and it shall have dust of gold.

28:7  A path which no fowl knows and which the vulture's eye has never seen;

28:8  the young of the proud have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by it.

28:9  He put his hand upon the flint and overturned the mountains from the root.

28:10  He cut rivers out of the rocks; and his eye saw every precious thing.

28:11  He detained the rivers in their source and caused that which was hid to be brought to light.

28:12  But where shall wisdom be found? And where [is] the place of understanding?

28:13  Man never knew its price; neither is it found in the land of the living.

28:14  The deep saith, It [is] not in me; and the sea saith, [It is] not with me.

28:15  It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] its price.

28:16  It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx or the sapphire.

28:17  Gold cannot equal it, nor can diamond; neither shall it be exchanged for vessels of fine gold.

28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for wisdom is better than precious stones.

28:19  The emerald of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

28:20  Where then does wisdom come from? And where [is] the place of understanding?

28:21  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept concealed from every fowl of the heaven.

28:22  Hell and death say, We have heard its fame with our ears.

28:23  God understands its way, and he [alone] knows its place.

28:24  For he looks unto the ends of the earth [and] sees under the whole heaven,

28:25  To make a weight for the wind and to supply water by measure,

28:26  when he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders.

28:27  Then he saw it and counted it; he prepared it and also searched it out.

28:28  And unto man he said, Behold, that the fear of the Lord, [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.: