3.1 KiB
3.1 KiB
Job 28
- “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.
- Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.
- Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.
- He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.
- As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
- Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
- “That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon’s eye has not seen it.
- The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
- “Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.
- He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
- He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
- “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
- Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living.
- The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
- It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
- It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
- Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
- No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.
- The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
- “From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?
- It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air.
- Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
- “God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.
- For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
- When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,
- when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
- then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
- And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
(ESV)