< Job 28 >

1 Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
for there to/for silver: money exit and place to/for gold to refine
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is molten out of the stone.
iron from dust to take: take and stone to pour bronze
3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
end to set: put to/for darkness and to/for all limit he/she/it to search stone darkness and shadow
4 He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn, paths forgotten by the foot. They hang afar from men; they swing to and fro.
to break through torrent: river from from with to sojourn [the] to forget from foot to languish from human to shake
5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
land: soil from her to come out: produce food: bread and underneath: under her to overturn like fire
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
place sapphire stone her and dust gold to/for him
7 No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the falcon's eye seen it.
path not to know him bird of prey and not to see him eye falcon
8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed thereby.
not to tread him son: type of pride not to advance upon him lion
9 He puts forth his hand upon the flinty rock. He overturns the mountains by the roots.
in/on/with flint to send: reach hand: power his to overturn from root mountain: mount
10 He cuts out channels among the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
in/on/with rock stream to break up/open and all preciousness to see: see eye his
11 He binds the streams that they not trickle. And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.
from weeping river to saddle/tie and secret her to come out: send light
12 But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
and [the] wisdom from where? to find and where? this place understanding
13 Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.
not to know human valuation her and not to find in/on/with land: country/planet [the] alive
14 The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me.
abyss to say not in/on/with me he/she/it and sea to say nothing with me me
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, nor shall silver be weighed for the price of it.
not to give: give enclosure underneath: instead her and not to weigh silver: money price her
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
not to weigh in/on/with gold Ophir in/on/with onyx precious and sapphire
17 Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
not to arrange her gold and glass and exchange her article/utensil pure gold
18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
coral and crystal not to remember and bag/price wisdom from jewel
19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, nor shall it be valued with pure gold.
not to arrange her topaz Cush in/on/with gold pure not to weigh
20 Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?
and [the] wisdom from where? to come (in): come and where? this place understanding
21 Since it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the birds of the heavens.
and to conceal from eye all alive and from bird [the] heaven to hide
22 Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.
Abaddon and death to say in/on/with ear our to hear: hear report her
23 God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
God to understand way: direction her and he/she/it to know [obj] place her
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven,
for he/she/it to/for end [the] land: country/planet to look underneath: under all [the] heaven to see: see
25 to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure.
to/for to make: offer to/for spirit: breath weight and water to measure in/on/with measure
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
in/on/with to make he to/for rain statute: decree and way: journey to/for lightning voice: thunder
27 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yea, and searched it out.
then to see: see her and to recount her to establish: establish her and also to search her
28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.
and to say to/for man look! fear Lord he/she/it wisdom and to turn aside: turn aside from bad: evil understanding

< Job 28 >