< 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 for gold which they refine.
2 iron from dust to take: take and stone to pour bronze
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
3 end to set: put to/for darkness and to/for all limit he/she/it to search stone darkness and shadow
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
4 to break through torrent: river from from with to sojourn [the] to forget from foot to languish from human to shake
He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
5 land: soil from her to come out: produce food: bread and underneath: under her to overturn like fire
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
6 place sapphire stone her and dust gold to/for him
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
7 path not to know him bird of prey and not to see him eye falcon
That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.
8 not to tread him son: type of pride not to advance upon him lion
The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
9 in/on/with flint to send: reach hand: power his to overturn from root mountain: mount
He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
10 in/on/with rock stream to break up/open and all preciousness to see: see eye his
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
11 from weeping river to saddle/tie and secret her to come out: send light
He binds the streams that they do not trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
12 and [the] wisdom from where? to find and where? this place understanding
"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
13 not to know human valuation her and not to find in/on/with land: country/planet [the] alive
Man doesn't know its price; Neither 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 deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'
15 not to give: give enclosure underneath: instead her and not to weigh silver: money price her
It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
16 not to weigh in/on/with gold Ophir in/on/with onyx precious and sapphire
It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 not to arrange her gold and glass and exchange her article/utensil pure gold
Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
18 coral and crystal not to remember and bag/price wisdom from jewel
No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
19 not to arrange her topaz Cush in/on/with gold pure not to weigh
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20 and [the] wisdom from where? to come (in): come and where? this place understanding
From where then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?
21 and to conceal from eye all alive and from bird [the] heaven to hide
Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
22 Abaddon and death to say in/on/with ear our to hear: hear report her
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
23 God to understand way: direction her and he/she/it to know [obj] place her
"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 farthest parts of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.
25 to/for to make: offer to/for spirit: breath weight and water to measure in/on/with measure
He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
26 in/on/with to make he to/for rain statute: decree and way: journey to/for lightning voice: thunder
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
27 then to see: see her and to recount her to establish: establish her and also to search her
then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, 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
To man he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

< Job 28 >