Job 28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where
they fine it.
Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
Job 28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the
stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Job 28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten
of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Job 28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as
it were fire.
Job 28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Job 28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath
not seen:
Job 28:8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by
it.
Job 28:9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains
by the roots.
Job 28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every
precious thing.
Job 28:11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid
bringeth he forth to light.
Job 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of
understanding?
Job 28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of
the living.
Job 28:14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with
me.
Job 28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the
price thereof.
Job 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or
the sapphire.
Job 28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall
not be for jewels of fine gold.
Job 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of
wisdom is above rubies.
Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued
with pure gold.
Job 28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the
fowls of the air.
Job 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our
ears.
Job 28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Job 28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole
heaven;
Job 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by
measure.
Job 28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the
thunder:
Job 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched
it out.
Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
and to depart from evil is understanding.