Job 28
1 For there for silver [is] a mine and a place for gold [which] people refine.
For there is a place for the silver, whence it comes, and a place for the gold, whence it is refined.
2 Iron from [the] dust it is taken and stone someone pours out copper.
For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone.
3 An end - someone puts to the darkness and to every outermost part he [is] searching for [the] stone of gloom and deep darkness.
He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone [is] darkness, and the shadow of death.
4 He breaks open a shaft - away from with a sojourner forgotten from foot they hang down away from humankind they swing.
There is a cutting off the torrent by reason of dust: so they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from [among] men.
5 [the] earth From it it comes forth food and under it it is turned over like fire.
[As for] the earth, out of it shall come bread: under it has been turned up as it were fire.
6 [are] a place of Sapphire stones its and dust of gold [belong] to it.
Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and [her] dust [supplies] man with gold.
7 [the] path Not it knows it a bird of prey and not it catches sight of it [the] eye of a hawk.
[There is] a path, the fowl has not known it, neither has the eye of the vulture seen it:
8 Not they tread it [the] sons of pride not it passes by on it a lion.
neither have the sons of the proud trodden it, a lion has not passed upon it.
9 On the flint he stretches out hand his he overturns from [the] root mountains.
He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp [rock], and turned up mountains by the roots:
10 In the rocks shafts he splits open and every precious thing it sees eye his.
and he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, and mine eye has seen every precious thing.
11 From weeping rivers he restrains and secret her he brings out light.
And he has laid bare the depths of rivers, and has brought his power to light.
12 And wisdom from where? will it be found and where? this [is the] place of understanding.
But whence has wisdom been discovered? and what is the place of knowledge?
13 Not he knows humankind valuation its and not it is found in [the] land of the living [ones].
A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been discovered among men.
14 [the] deep It says not [is] in me it and [the] sea it says not [it] [is] with me.
The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me.
15 Not it will be given fine gold for it and not it will be weighed out silver price its.
One shall not give fine gold instead of it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.
16 Not it will be paid in [the] gold of Ophir in onyx precious and sapphire.
Neither shall it be compared with gold of Sophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire.
17 Not it will be comparable to it gold and glass and [is] exchange its a vessel of pure gold.
Gold and crystal shall not be equalled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange.
18 Corals and crystal not it is remembered and [the] price of wisdom [is] more than pearls.
Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned: but do thou esteem wisdom above the most precious things.
19 Not it will be comparable to it topaz of Cush in gold pure not it will be paid.
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equalled to it; it shall not be compared with pure gold.
20 And wisdom from where? does it come and where? this [is the] place of understanding.
Whence then is wisdom found? and of what kind is the place of understanding?
21 And it has been concealed from [the] eyes of every living [thing] and from [the] bird[s] of the heavens it has been hidden.
It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky.
22 Abaddon and death they say with ears our we have heard report its.
Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it.
23 God he understands way its and he he knows place its.
God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
24 For he to [the] ends of the earth he looks under all the heavens he sees.
For he surveys the whole [earth] under heaven, knowing the things in the earth:
25 To make for the wind weight and [the] waters he has measured with a measure.
all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water.
26 When made he for the rain a decree and a path for [the] storm of thunder claps.
When he made [them], thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder.
27 Then he saw it and he recounted it he established it and also he examined it.
Then he saw it, and declared it: he prepared it [and] traced it out.
28 And he said - to humankind here! [the] fear of [the] Lord that [is] wisdom and to turn from evil [is] understanding.
And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.
