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.