Job 28
1 For there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
For there for silver [is] a mine and a place for gold [which] people refine.
2 Iron is taken out of the dust, and brass is molten out of the stone.
Iron from [the] dust it is taken and stone someone pours out copper.
3 Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.
An end - someone puts to the darkness and to every outermost part he [is] searching for [the] stone of gloom and deep darkness.
4 He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; they are forgotten of the foot that passeth by; they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
He breaks open a shaft - away from with a sojourner forgotten from foot they hang down away from humankind they swing.
5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
[the] earth From it it comes forth food and under it it is turned over like fire.
6 The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.
[are] a place of Sapphire stones its and dust of gold [belong] to it.
7 That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it;
[the] path Not it knows it a bird of prey and not it catches sight of it [the] eye of a hawk.
8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the lion passed thereby.
Not they tread it [the] sons of pride not it passes by on it a lion.
9 He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.
On the flint he stretches out hand his he overturns from [the] root mountains.
10 He cutteth out channels among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
In the rocks shafts he splits open and every precious thing it sees eye his.
11 He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
From weeping rivers he restrains and secret her he brings out light.
12 But wisdom, where shall it be found? And where is the place of understanding?
And wisdom from where? will it be found and where? this [is the] place of understanding.
13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Not he knows humankind valuation its and not it is found in [the] land of the living [ones].
14 The deep saith: 'It is not in me'; and the sea saith: 'It is not with me.'
[the] deep It says not [is] in me it and [the] sea it says not [it] [is] with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Not it will be given fine gold for it and not it will be weighed out silver price its.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Not it will be paid in [the] gold of Ophir in onyx precious and sapphire.
17 Gold and glass cannot equal it; neither shall the exchange thereof be vessels of fine gold.
Not it will be comparable to it gold and glass and [is] exchange its a vessel of pure gold.
18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Corals and crystal not it is remembered and [the] price of wisdom [is] more than pearls.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Not it will be comparable to it topaz of Cush in gold pure not it will be paid.
20 Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
And wisdom from where? does it come and where? this [is the] place of understanding.
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
And it has been concealed from [the] eyes of every living [thing] and from [the] bird[s] of the heavens it has been hidden.
22 Destruction and Death say: 'We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.'
Abaddon and death they say with ears our we have heard report its.
23 God understandeth the way thereof, and He knoweth the place thereof.
God he understands way its and he he knows place its.
24 For He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
For he to [the] ends of the earth he looks under all the heavens he sees.
25 When He maketh a weight for the wind, and meteth out the waters by measure.
To make for the wind weight and [the] waters he has measured with a measure.
26 When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the storm of thunders;
When made he for the rain a decree and a path for [the] storm of thunder claps.
27 Then did He see it, and declare it; He established it, yea, and searched it out.
Then he saw it and he recounted it he established it and also he examined it.
28 And unto man He said: 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'
And he said - to humankind here! [the] fear of [the] Lord that [is] wisdom and to turn from evil [is] understanding.
