Job - Chapter 28 | English Standard Version

  • 1. "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.
  • 2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.
  • 3. Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.
  • 4. He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.
  • 5. As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
  • 6. Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
  • 7. "That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it.
  • 8. The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
  • 9. "Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.
  • 10. He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
  • 11. He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
  • 12. "But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
  • 13. Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living.
  • 14. The deep says, 'It is not in me,' and the sea says, 'It is not with me.'
  • 15. It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
  • 16. It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
  • 17. Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
  • 18. No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.
  • 19. The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
  • 20. "From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?
  • 21. It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air.
  • 22. Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
  • 23. "God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.
  • 24. For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
  • 25. When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,
  • 26. when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
  • 27. then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
  • 28. And he said to man, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"
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