Job 28

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        Job 28
      
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        <b>1.  Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.</b>
      
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         2.  Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
      
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         3.  He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of 
        darkness, and the shadow of death.
      
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         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.
      
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         5.  As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: 
      
      
        <b>and under it is turned up as it were fire.</b>
      
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         6.  The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
      
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         7.  There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
      
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         8.  The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
      
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         9.  He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
      
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         10.  He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
      
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         11.  He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth 
        to light.
      
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        <b>12.  But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?</b>
      
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         13.  Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
      
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         14.  The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
      
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         15.  It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
      
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         16.  It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
      
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         17.  The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for 
        jewels of fine gold.
      
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         18.  No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above 
        rubies.
      
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         19.  The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
      
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        <b> 20.  Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?</b>
      
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         21.  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the 
        air.
      
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         22.  Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
      
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         23.  God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
      
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         24.  For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
      
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         25.  To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
      
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         26.  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
      
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         27.  Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
      
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        <b> 28.  And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart 
        from evil is understanding.</b>
      
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