Job Chapter 28

• Job 28:1
  Job.
• Job 28:2
  “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
• Job 28:3
  Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
• Job 28:4
  Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
• Job 28:5
  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.
• Job 28:6
  As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
• Job 28:7
  Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
• Job 28:8
  That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
• Job 28:9
  The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
• Job 28:10
  He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
• Job 28:11
  He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
• Job 28:12
  He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
• Job 28:13
  “But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
• Job 28:14
  Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.
• Job 28:15
  The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’
• Job 28:16
  It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.
• Job 28:17
  It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
• Job 28:18
  Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
• Job 28:19
  No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
• Job 28:20
  The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it. It won’t be valued with pure gold.
• Job 28:21
  Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
• Job 28:22
  Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
• Job 28:23
  Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
• Job 28:24
  “God understands its way, and he knows its place.
• Job 28:25
  For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.
• Job 28:26
  He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
• Job 28:27
  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
• Job 28:28
  then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.
• Job 28:29
  To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”