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28:1  Job: There is a place where silver is mined, a place where gold is refined.
28:2  There iron is dug from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
28:3  Humans put an end to darkness, and search in every last corner For the ore that is in gloom and darkness.
28:4  In the earth they cut a shaft in a place forgotten, far from the beaten path; They descend on ropes, swinging dangerously back and forth.
28:5  The ground above yields food; the earth below is turned as if fire has destroyed it
28:6  Where earth gives up sapphires from her rocks and bits of gold from her dirt.
28:7  No bird of prey knows this way, this secret path down below; no falcon’s eye has ever peered into it.
28:8  No proud beast has ever reached this place; no lordly lion has marched over it.
28:9  The miner breaks apart flinty stone, uprooting the ancient mountains.
28:10  He carves tunnels through the rock, revealing precious treasures.
28:11  He dams up the underground streams until they cease seeping, and he brings out into the light what was hidden there in the darkness.
28:12  But where is wisdom found, and where does understanding dwell?
28:13  Job: No human perceives wisdom’s true value, nor has she been found in the land of the living.
28:14  The deep says, “She is not to be seen within me.” “Nor within me,” says the voice of the raging sea.
28:15  No gold can be given in trade for wisdom, nor a sum of silver weighed out as her price.
28:16  She cannot be bought with all the gold of Ophir, neither with onyx nor sapphire.
28:17  The shimmer of gold and brightness of glass cannot compare, and no refined gold jewelry is worth her in trade.
28:18  Perish the mention of coral and crystal; even more than pearls is the value of wisdom.
28:19  Ethiopian topaz—unequal as well; even gold, unalloyed, is too paltry indeed.
28:20  Then from where does wisdom come? Where does understanding dwell?
28:21  She is hidden away from every eye, even from birds looking down from the sky.
28:22  Destruction and Death have both confessed, “Rumors are all we know about her.”
28:23  God understands wisdom’s path and way; her place is known to Him alone.
28:24  For He gazes out to the edge of the earth, sees all that falls beneath the sky overhead.
28:25  He lent the wind its weight and force and measured out the waters’ spread.
28:26  When He set a limit on the rain that falls and made the thunderbolt a road to race,
28:27  Then He saw wisdom and made her known, He settled her and searched out for her a place.
28:28  And to humankind, He said, “Now, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.”