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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/28.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Job’s Discourse on Wisdom</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-28-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Surely there is a mine for silver,</span></span><br /><span class="text Job-28-1">And a place <i>where</i> gold is refined.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Iron is taken from the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>earth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-2">And copper <i>is</i> smelted <i>from</i> ore.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><i>Man</i> puts an end to darkness,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-3">And searches every recess</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-3">For ore in the darkness and the shadow of death.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He breaks open a shaft away from people;</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-4"><i>In places</i> forgotten by feet</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-4">They hang far away from men;</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-4">They swing to and fro.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><i>As for</i> the earth, from it comes bread,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-5">But underneath it is turned up as by fire;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Its stones <i>are</i> the source of sapphires,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-6">And it contains gold dust.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><i>That</i> path no bird knows,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-7">Nor has the falcon’s eye seen it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>proud lions have not trodden it,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-8">Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He puts his hand on the flint;</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-9">He overturns the mountains <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>at the roots.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He cuts out channels in the rocks,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-10">And his eye sees every precious thing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He dams up the streams from trickling;</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-11"><i>What is</i> hidden he brings forth to light.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“But where can wisdom be found?</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-12">And where <i>is</i> the place of understanding?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Man does not know its value,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-13">Nor is it found in the land of the living.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The deep says, ‘<i>It is</i> not in me’;</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-14">And the sea says, ‘<i>It is</i> not with me.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>It cannot be purchased for gold,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-15">Nor can silver be weighed <i>for</i> its price.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-16">In precious onyx or sapphire.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Neither gold nor crystal can equal it,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-17">Nor can it be exchanged for <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>jewelry of fine gold.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>No mention shall be made of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>coral or quartz,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-18">For the price of wisdom <i>is</i> above rubies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-19">Nor can it be valued in pure gold.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“From where then does wisdom come?</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-20">And where <i>is</i> the place of understanding?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>It is hidden from the eyes of all living,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-21">And concealed from the birds of the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>air.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Destruction<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span> and Death say,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-22">‘We have heard a report about it with our ears.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>God understands its way,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-23">And He knows its place.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For He looks to the ends of the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-24"><i>And</i> sees under the whole heavens,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>To establish a weight for the wind,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-25">And apportion the waters by measure.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When He made a law for the rain,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-26">And a path for the thunderbolt,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then He saw <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span><i>wisdom</i> and declared it;</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-27">He prepared it, indeed, He searched it out.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And to man He said,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-28">‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that <i>is</i> wisdom,</span><br /><span class="text Job-28-28">And to depart from evil <i>is</i> understanding.’ ”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13507a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 28:2">Job 28:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>dust</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13513b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 28:8">Job 28:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>sons of pride,</i> figurative of the great lions</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13514c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 28:9">Job 28:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>At the base</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13522d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 28:17">Job 28:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>vessels</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13523e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 28:18">Job 28:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>ramoth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13526f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 28:21">Job 28:21</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>heaven</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13527g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 28:22">Job 28:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Abaddon</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13532h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 28:27">Job 28:27</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>it</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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