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