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Job - ch 28 v 1 - 20
- "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
- Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
- Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
- He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
- As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
- Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
- That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.
- The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
- He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
- He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
- He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
- "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
- Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
- The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'
- It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
- It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire1.
- Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
- No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
- The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
- Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?
- or, lapis lazuli
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