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Job 28

Old Testament

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  1. Job 28:1

    Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

  2. Job 28:2

    Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

  3. Job 28:3

    He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

  4. 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.

  5. Job 28:5

    As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

  6. Job 28:6

    The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

  7. Job 28:7

    There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:

  8. Job 28:8

    The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

  9. Job 28:9

    He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

  10. Job 28:10

    He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

  11. Job 28:11

    He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

  12. Job 28:12

    But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

  13. Job 28:13

    Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

  14. Job 28:14

    The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

  15. Job 28:15

    It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

  16. Job 28:16

    It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

  17. Job 28:17

    The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

  18. Job 28:18

    No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

  19. Job 28:19

    The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

  20. Job 28:20

    Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

  21. Job 28:21

    Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

  22. Job 28:22

    Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

  23. Job 28:23

    God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

  24. Job 28:24

    For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;

  25. Job 28:25

    To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

  26. Job 28:26

    When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

  27. Job 28:27

    Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

  28. Job 28:28

    And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.