31 lines
2.3 KiB
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31 lines
2.3 KiB
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Job.
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Chapter 28.
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“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
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Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
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Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
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He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
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As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
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Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
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That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
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The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
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He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
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He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
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He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
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“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
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Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.
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The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’
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It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.
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It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
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No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
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The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it. It won’t be valued with pure gold.
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Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
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Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
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Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
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“God understands its way, and he knows its place.
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For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.
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He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
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When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
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then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.
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To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
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