Job 28

28Surely there is ^||a vein for the ^asilver,

And ^ba place for gold where they ^cfine it.

²Iron is taken out of the ^||earth,

And brass is ^dmolten out of the stone.

³He setteth an end to darkness,

And searcheth out ^eall perfection:

The stones of ^fdarkness, and the ^gshadow of death.

⁴The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant;

Even the waters ^hforgotten of the foot:

They are dried up, they are gone away from men.

⁵As for ⁱthe earth, out of it cometh bread:

And ^junder it is turned up as it were fire.

⁶The stones of it are ^kthe place of ^lsapphires:

And it hath ^||dust of gold.

⁷There is a path which no fowl knoweth,

And which the ^mvulture’s ⁿeye hath not seen:

⁸The ^olion’s whelps have not trodden it,

Nor the ^pfierce lion passed by it.

⁹He putteth forth his hand upon the ^||rock;

He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

¹⁰He cutteth out ^qrivers among the rocks;

And his eye seeth every precious thing.

¹¹He bindeth the ^qfloods ^†from overflowing;

And ^rthe thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

^12sBut where shall ^twisdom be found?

And where is the place of ^tunderstanding?

¹³Man knoweth not the ^uprice thereof;

Neither is it found in ^xthe land of the living.

^14yThe depth saith, It is not in me:

And the sea saith, It is not with me.

^15†It ^zcannot be gotten for ^agold,

Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

¹⁶It cannot ^bbe valued with the ^cgold of ^dOphir,

With the precious ^eonyx, or the ^fsapphire.

¹⁷The gold and the crystal cannot ^gequal it:

And the exchange of it shall not be for ^||jewels of fine gold.

^18hNo mention shall be made of ^||coral, or of ^hhpearls:

For the price of wisdom is above ⁱrubies.

¹⁹The ^jtopaz of ^kEthiopia shall not ^gequal it,

Neither ^bshall it be valued with pure ^cgold.

^20lWhence then cometh wisdom?

And where is the place of understanding?

²¹Seeing it is hid from the eyes ^mof all living,

And kept close from the fowls of the ^||air.

²²ⁿDestruction and death say,

We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

^23oGod understandeth the way thereof,

And he knoweth the place thereof.

²⁴For he looketh to the ends of the earth,

And seeth under the whole heaven;

²⁵To ^pmake the weight for the winds;

And he weigheth the waters by measure.

^26qWhen he made a ^rdecree for the rain,

And a ^sway for the lightning of the thunder:

²⁷Then did he see it, and ^||declare it;

He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

²⁸And unto man he said, Behold, ^tthe fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;

And ^uto depart from evil is understanding.