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28:1  “There are mines where people dig silver and places where gold is made pure.
28:2  Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is melted out of rocks.
28:3  Miners bring lights and search deep into the mines for ore in thick darkness.
28:4  Miners dig a tunnel far from where people live, where no one has ever walked; they work far from people, swinging and swaying from ropes.
28:5  Food grows on top of the earth, but below ground things are changed as if by fire.
28:6  Sapphires are found in rocks, and gold dust is also found there.
28:7  No hawk knows that path; the falcon has not seen it.
28:8  Proud animals have not walked there, and no lions cross over it.
28:9  Miners hit the rocks of flint and dig away at the bottom of the mountains.
28:10  They cut tunnels through the rock and see all the treasures there.
28:11  They search for places where rivers begin and bring things hidden out into the light.
28:12  “But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding live?
28:13  People do not understand the value of wisdom; it cannot be found among those who are alive.
28:14  The deep ocean says, ‘It’s not in me;’ the sea says, ‘It’s not in me.’
28:15  Wisdom cannot be bought with gold, and its cost cannot be weighed in silver.
28:16  Wisdom cannot be bought with fine gold or with valuable onyx or sapphire gems.
28:17  Gold and crystal are not as valuable as wisdom, and you cannot buy it with jewels of gold.
28:18  Coral and jasper are not worth talking about, and the price of wisdom is much greater than rubies.
28:19  The topaz from Cush cannot compare to wisdom; it cannot be bought with the purest gold.
28:20  “So where does wisdom come from, and where does understanding live?
28:21  It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, even from the birds of the air.
28:22  The places of destruction and death say, ‘We have heard reports about it.’
28:23  Only God understands the way to wisdom, and he alone knows where it lives,
28:24  because he looks to the farthest parts of the earth and sees everything under the sky.
28:25  When God gave power to the wind and measured the water,
28:26  when he made rules for the rain and set a path for a thunderstorm to follow,
28:27  then he looked at wisdom and decided its worth; he set wisdom up and tested it.
28:28  Then he said to humans, ‘The fear of the Lord is wisdom; to stay away from evil is understanding.’”