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Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it] (28:1) Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone (28:2) He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death (28:3) The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men (28:4) [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire (28:5) The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold (28:6) [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: (28:7) The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it (28:8) He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots (28:9) He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing (28:10) He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light (28:11) But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding? (28:12) Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living (28:13) The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not with me (28:14) It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price thereof (28:15) It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire (28:16) The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold (28:17) No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies (28:18) The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold (28:19) Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding? (28:20) Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air (28:21) Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears (28:22) God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof (28:23) For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven; (28:24) To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure (28:25) When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: (28:26) Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out (28:27) And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding
(28:28)
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