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28:1  Job showeth that the wisdom of God is unsearchable. The silver surely hath his vein, and the gold his palace, where they take it.
28:2  Iron is taken out of the dust, and brass is molten out of the stone.
28:3  God putteth an end to darkness, and he trieth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkness, and of the shadow of death.
28:4  The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foot, being higher than man, are gone away.
28:5  Out of the same earth cometh bread, and under it, as it were fire is turned up.
28:6  The stones thereof are a place of Sapphires, and the dust of it is gold.
28:7  There is a path which no fowl hath known, neither hath the kite’s eye seen it.
28:8  The Lion’s whelps have not walked it, nor the Lion passed thereby.
28:9  He putteth his hand upon the rocks, and overthroweth the mountains by the roots.
28:10  He breaketh rivers in the roots, and his eye seeth every precious thing.
28:11  He bindeth the floods, that they do not overflow, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.
28:12  But where is wisdom found? and where is the place of understanding?
28:13  Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the living.
28:14  The depth saith, It is not in me: the Sea also saith, It is not with me.
28:15  Gold shall not be given for it, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
28:16  It shall not be valued with the wedge of gold of Ophir, nor with the precious onyx, nor the sapphire.
28:17  The gold nor the crystal shall be equal unto it, nor the exchange shall be for plate of fine gold.
28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisdom is more precious than pearls.
28:19  The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal unto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.
28:20  Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding,
28:21  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the living, and is hid from the fowls of the heaven?
28:22  Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
28:23  But God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
28:24  For he beholdeth the ends of the world, and seeth all that is under heaven,
28:25  To make the weight of the winds and to weigh the waters by measure.
28:26  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders,
28:27  Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it, and also considered it.
28:28  And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.