Job 28

1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
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2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
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3 He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
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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.
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5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.
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7 There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture's eye has not seen:
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8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
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9 He puts forth his hand on the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.
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10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.
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11 He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.
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12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
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13 Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
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14 The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me.
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15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
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16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
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18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
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19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
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20 From where then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
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21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
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22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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23 God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.
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24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;
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25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.
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26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yes, and searched it out.
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28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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