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job 28

1 - "Surely there is a mine for silver,and a place for gold which they refine.
2 - Iron is taken out of the earth,and copper is smelted out of the ore.
3 - Man sets an end to darkness,and searches out, to the furthest bound,the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
4 - 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.
5 - As for the earth, out of it comes bread;Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
6 - Sapphires come from its rocks.It has dust of gold.
7 - That path no bird of prey knows,neither has the falcon's eye seen it.
8 - The proud animals have not trodden it,nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
9 - He puts his hand on the flinty rock,and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
10 - He cuts out channels among the rocks.His eye sees every precious thing.
11 - He binds the streams that they don't trickle.The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
12 - "But where shall wisdom be found?Where is the place of understanding?
13 - Man doesn't know its price;Neither is it found in the land of the living.
14 - The deep says, 'It isn't in me.'The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'
15 - It can't be gotten for gold,neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
16 - It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir,with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 - Gold and glass can't equal it,neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
18 - No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal.Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
19 - The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20 - Where then does wisdom come from?Where is the place of understanding?
21 - Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living,and kept close from the birds of the sky.
22 - Destruction and Death say,'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
23 - "God understands its way,and he knows its place.
24 - For he looks to the ends of the earth,and sees under the whole sky.
25 - He establishes the force of the wind.Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
26 - When he made a decree for the rain,and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
27 - then he saw it, and declared it.He established it, yes, and searched it out.
28 - To man he said,'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom.To depart from evil is understanding.'"

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