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28:1  Surely there is a mine for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.
28:2  Iron is taken out of the dust, and bronze is melted out of the stone.
28:3  He set a border unto the darkness, and unto every perfect work that he made, he placed a stone of darkness and shadow of death.
28:4  The river breaks forth next to the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot, that were higher than man, are gone away.
28:5  Land out of which bread comes forth, and underneath it shall be as if it were converted in fire.
28:6  A place where its stones shall be sapphires; and it shall have dust of gold.
28:7  A path which no fowl knows and which the vulture’s eye has never seen;
28:8  the young of the proud have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by it.
28:9  He put his hand upon the flint and overturned the mountains from the root.
28:10  He cut rivers out of the rocks; and his eye saw every precious thing.
28:11  He detained the rivers in their source and caused that which was hid to be brought to light.
28:12  But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
28:13  Man never knew its price; neither is it found in the land of the living.
28:14  The deep saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
28:15  It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
28:16  It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx or the sapphire.
28:17  Gold cannot equal it, nor can diamond; neither shall it be exchanged for vessels of fine gold.
28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for wisdom is better than precious stones.
28:19  The emerald of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
28:20  Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?
28:21  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept concealed from every fowl of the heaven.
28:22  Hell and death say, We have heard its fame with our ears.
28:23  God understands its way, and he alone knows its place.
28:24  For he looks unto the ends of the earth and sees under the whole heaven,
28:25  To make a weight for the wind and to supply water by measure,
28:26  when he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders.
28:27  Then he saw it and counted it; he prepared it and also searched it out.
28:28  And unto man he said, Behold, that the fear of the Lord, is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.