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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 brass is smelted out of the stone.
28:3  Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection, the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
28:4  The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant, even the waters forgotten by the foot; they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
28:5  As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and under it is turned up as it were fire.
28:6  The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.
28:7  There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen.
28:8  The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
28:9  Man putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots;
28:10  he cutteth out rivers among the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing;
28:11  he bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
28:12  But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
28:13  Man knoweth not the price thereof; 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 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 pearls, 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  “Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding—
28:21  seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air?
28:22  Destruction and death say, ‘We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.’
28:23  God understandeth the way thereof, and He knoweth the place thereof.
28:24  For He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven,
28:25  to make the weight for the winds, and He weigheth 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.’”