UKJV - Job - 28

28:1  Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

28:2  Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

28:3  He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

28:4  The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

28:5  As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

28:6  The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.

28:7  There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture's eye has not seen:

28:8  The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

28:9  He puts forth his hand upon the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.

28:10  He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.

28:11  He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.

28:12  But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

28:13  Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

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

28:15  It cannot be got for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

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

28:17  The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

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

28:20  Whence then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

28:21  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

28:22  Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

28:23  God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.

28:24  For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;

28:25  To make the weight for the winds; and he weights the waters by measure.

28:26  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

28:27  Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

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