Job 28
1 for there to/for silver: money exit and place to/for gold to refine
“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
2 iron from dust to take: take and stone to pour bronze
Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
3 end to set: put to/for darkness and to/for all limit he/she/it to search stone darkness and shadow
Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
4 to break through torrent: river from from with to sojourn [the] to forget from foot to languish from human to shake
Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
5 land: soil from her to come out: produce food: bread and underneath: under her to overturn like fire
Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
6 place sapphire stone her and dust gold to/for him
Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
7 path not to know him bird of prey and not to see him eye falcon
No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
8 not to tread him son: type of pride not to advance upon him lion
Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
9 in/on/with flint to send: reach hand: power his to overturn from root mountain: mount
The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.
10 in/on/with rock stream to break up/open and all preciousness to see: see eye his
He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.
11 from weeping river to saddle/tie and secret her to come out: send light
He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
12 and [the] wisdom from where? to find and where? this place understanding
But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
13 not to know human valuation her and not to find in/on/with land: country/planet [the] alive
No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
14 abyss to say not in/on/with me he/she/it and sea to say nothing with me me
The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’
15 not to give: give enclosure underneath: instead her and not to weigh silver: money price her
It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
16 not to weigh in/on/with gold Ophir in/on/with onyx precious and sapphire
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
17 not to arrange her gold and glass and exchange her article/utensil pure gold
Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it.
18 coral and crystal not to remember and bag/price wisdom from jewel
Coral and quartz are unworthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
19 not to arrange her topaz Cush in/on/with gold pure not to weigh
Topaz from Cush cannot compare to it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
20 and [the] wisdom from where? to come (in): come and where? this place understanding
From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
21 and to conceal from eye all alive and from bird [the] heaven to hide
It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
22 Abaddon and death to say in/on/with ear our to hear: hear report her
Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
23 God to understand way: direction her and he/she/it to know [obj] place her
But God understands its way, and He knows its place.
24 for he/she/it to/for end [the] land: country/planet to look underneath: under all [the] heaven to see: see
For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
25 to/for to make: offer to/for spirit: breath weight and water to measure in/on/with measure
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
26 in/on/with to make he to/for rain statute: decree and way: journey to/for lightning voice: thunder
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
27 then to see: see her and to recount her to establish: establish her and also to search her
then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.
28 and to say to/for man look! fear Lord he/she/it wisdom and to turn aside: turn aside from bad: evil understanding
And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
