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28:1  Surely there is a mine for the kesef, and a makom for zahav where they refine it.
28:2  Barzel (iron) is taken out of aphar, and nechoshet is smelted out of the even (stone, ore).
28:3  He setteth a ketz to choshech, and searcheth out all extremities, the even (ore) of darkness and tzalmavet.
28:4  He cuts out a shaft down far from the inhabitant; forgotten of the regel, they dangle, suspended, away from enosh.
28:5  As for eretz, out of it cometh lechem, and under it is transformed as by eish.
28:6  The stones of it are the makom of the sapphire, and it hath ore of zahav.
28:7  There is a hidden path of which no bird of prey has da’as, and which the falcon’s eye hath not seen.
28:8  The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the shachal (lion’s cub) passed over it.
28:9  He [the miner] putteth forth his yad upon the rock; he upturneth the mountains by the shoresh.
28:10  He cutteth out channels through the tzurot (rocks), and his eye seeth every precious thing.
28:11  He dams up the streams from flowing, and the thing that is hidden bringeth he forth to ohr.
28:12  But where shall chochmah be found? And where is the makom binah?
28:13  Enosh knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the Eretz HaChayyim.
28:14  The tehom (abyss) saith, It is not in me; and the yam saith, It is not with me.
28:15  It cannot be gotten in exchange for fine gold, neither shall kesef be weighed for the price thereof.
28:16  It cannot be valued with the fine gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
28:17  The zahav and the crystal cannot equal it, and the exchange of it shall not be for the jewel of gold.
28:18  Nor shall mention be made of coral or crystal, for the price of chochmah is above pearls.
28:19  The chrysolite of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with tahor gold.
28:20  From where then cometh chochmah? And where is the makom binah?
28:21  Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of kol chai, and concealed from the oph HaShomayim.
28:22  Abaddon and Mavet say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
28:23  Elohim understandeth the way to it, and He knoweth the makom thereof.
28:24  For He looketh to the ketzot ha’aretz, and seeth all under Shomayim.
28:25  The weight He appointed for the ruach, and He weigheth the mayim by measure.
28:26  When He made a decree for the matar, and a derech for the lightning of the thunder,
28:27  Az (then) did He see it, and declare it; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28:28  And unto adam He said, See, the Yirat Adonoi, that is chochmah, and to depart from rah is binah.