Job 28
1 Surely there is a mine for silver, a place where they refine gold.
For there for silver [is] a mine and a place for gold [which] people refine.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth; copper is smelted out of the stone.
Iron from [the] dust it is taken and stone someone pours out copper.
3 A man sets an end to darkness and searches out, to the farthest limit, the stones in obscurity and thick darkness.
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 breaks open a shaft away from where people live, places that are forgotten by anyone's foot. He hangs far away from people; he swings 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 which comes bread, it is turned up below as if by fire.
[the] earth From it it comes forth food and under it it is turned over like fire.
6 Its stones are the place where sapphires are found, and its dust contains gold.
[are] a place of Sapphire stones its and dust of gold [belong] to it.
7 No bird of prey knows the path to it, nor has 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 animals have not walked such a path, nor has the fierce lion passed there.
Not they tread it [the] sons of pride not it passes by on it a lion.
9 A man lays his hand on the flinty rock; he overturns mountains by their roots.
On the flint he stretches out hand his he overturns from [the] root mountains.
10 He cuts out channels among the rocks; his eye sees every valuable thing there.
In the rocks shafts he splits open and every precious thing it sees eye his.
11 He ties up the streams so they do not run; what is hidden there he brings out to the light.
From weeping rivers he restrains and secret her he brings out light.
12 Where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
And wisdom from where? will it be found and where? this [is the] place of understanding.
13 Man does not know its price; 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 waters under the earth say, 'It is not in me'; the sea says, '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 can silver be weighed as its price.
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 precious onyx or sapphire.
Not it will be paid in [the] gold of Ophir in onyx precious and sapphire.
17 Gold and crystal cannot equal it in worth; neither can it be exchanged for jewels 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 is worth making of coral or jasper; indeed, the price of wisdom is more than rubies.
Corals and crystal not it is remembered and [the] price of wisdom [is] more than pearls.
19 The topaz of Cush does not equal it; neither can it be valued in terms of pure gold.
Not it will be comparable to it topaz of Cush in gold pure not it will be paid.
20 From where, then, comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?
And wisdom from where? does it come and where? this [is the] place of understanding.
21 Wisdom is hidden from the eyes of all living things and is kept hidden from the birds of the heavens.
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 just a rumor about it with our ears.'
Abaddon and death they say with ears our we have heard report its.
23 God understands the way to it; he knows its place.
God he understands way its and he he knows place its.
24 For he looks to the very ends of the earth and sees under all the heavens.
For he to [the] ends of the earth he looks under all the heavens he sees.
25 He made the force of the wind and parceled out the waters by measure.
To make for the wind weight and [the] waters he has measured with a measure.
26 He made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunder.
When made he for the rain a decree and a path for [the] storm of thunder claps.
27 Then he saw wisdom and announced it; he established it, indeed, and he examined it.
Then he saw it and he recounted it he established it and also he examined it.
28 To people he said, 'See, the fear of the Lord—that is wisdom; 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.
