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28:1  Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.
28:2  Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
28:3  Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out all recesses for ore in darkness, and the shadow of death.
28:4  He breaks open a shaft away from the inhabitants; even in places forgotten of the foot: they are gone away from men, they swing to and fro.
28:5  As for the earth, out of it comes bread: but under it is turned up as it were fire.
28:6  The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.
28:7  There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the falcon's eye has not seen:
28:8  The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
28:9  He puts forth his hand upon the flinty rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.
28:10  He cuts out rivers in the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.
28:11  He binds the streams from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.
28:12  But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
28:13  Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
28:14  The deep says, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
28:15  It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
28:16  It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
28:17  The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, or of crystal: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
28:19  The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
28:20  From where then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
28:21  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the fowls of the air.
28:22  Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.
28:23  God understands its way, and he knows its place.
28:24  For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;
28:25  To make the weight for the wind; and he apportions the waters by measure.
28:26  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
28:27  Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28:28  And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.