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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 28 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/28.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/28-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Job 28</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/27.htm" title="Job 27">◄</a> Job 28 <a href="../job/29.htm" title="Job 29">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/28-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Where Can Wisdom Be Found?<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For there is a going forth for silver, and a place for gold they will purify it.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Iron shall be taken from the dust, and stone will pour out brass.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He set an end to darkness, and he searched out for all completeness: the stone of darkness and the shadow of death.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The torrent broke out from the sojourner; being forgotten of the foot, they were weak, they wandered from men.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The earth, from it will come forth bread, and under it was turned as fire.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Its stones the place of the sapphire, and dust gold to it.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>A beaten path the birds knew not, and the vulture's eye scanned it not:<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The sons of pride trod it not, and the lion passed not by upon it.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He stretched forth his hand upon the flint; he overturned the mountains from the roots.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He cut rivers in the rocks, and his eye saw every precious thing.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He bound the rivers from weeping, and he will bring forth the hidden thing to light.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And from whence shall wisdom be found? and where this place of understanding?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And man knew not its estimation, and it shall not be found in the land of the living.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, Not with me.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Shut up gold shall not be given for it, and silver shall not be weighed its price.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>It shall not be weighed with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Gold and crystal shall not compare with it, and its exchange, vessels of pure gold.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>High things, and crystal, shall not be remembered: and the drawing out of wisdom above pearls.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The topaz of Cush shall not compare with it; with pure gold it shall not be weighed.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And from whence shall wisdom come? and where this place of understanding?<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And being hid from the eyes of all living, and covered from the birds of the heavens.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Destruction and death said, We heard its report with our ears:<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>God understood its way, and he knew its place.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For he will look to the ends of the earth, he will see under all the heavens;<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>To make the weight for the wind; and he weighed the waters by measure.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>In his making a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the voices.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then he saw, and he will recount it; he prepared it, and also he searched it out.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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