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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For there is a mine for silver,</div><div class="po2">And a place for gold which they refine.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Iron is taken out of the dust,</div><div class="po2">And brass is molten out of the stone.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Man setteth an end to darkness,</div><div class="po2">And searcheth out to the furthest bound</div><div class="po2">The stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn;</div><div class="po2">They are forgotten of the foot that passeth by;</div><div class="po2">They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As for the earth, out of it cometh bread,</div><div class="po2">And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The stones thereof are the place of sapphires,</div><div class="po2">And it hath dust of gold.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>That path no bird of prey knoweth,</div><div class="po2">Neither hath the falcon’s eye seen it;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The proud beasts have not trodden it,</div><div class="po2">Nor hath the lion passed thereby.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock;</div><div class="po2">He overturneth the mountains by the roots.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He cutteth out channels among the rocks;</div><div class="po2">And his eye seeth every precious thing.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He bindeth the streams that they trickle not;</div><div class="po2">And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But wisdom, where shall it be found?</div><div class="po2">And where is the place of understanding?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Man knoweth not the price thereof;</div><div class="po2">Neither is it found in the land of the living.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The deep saith: ‘It is not in me’;</div><div class="po2">And the sea saith: ‘It is not with me.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>It cannot be gotten for gold,</div><div class="po2">Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,</div><div class="po2">With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Gold and glass cannot equal it;</div><div class="po2">Neither shall the exchange thereof be vessels of fine gold.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal;</div><div class="po2">Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,</div><div class="po2">Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Whence then cometh wisdom?</div><div class="po2">And where is the place of understanding?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,</div><div class="po2">And kept close from the fowls of the air.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Destruction and Death say:</div><div class="po2">‘We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>God understandeth the way thereof,</div><div class="po2">And He knoweth the place thereof.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For He looketh to the ends of the earth,</div><div class="po2">And seeth under the whole heaven;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When He maketh a weight for the wind,</div><div class="po2">And meteth out the waters by measure.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When He made a decree for the rain,</div><div class="po2">And a way for the storm of thunders;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then did He see it, and declare it;</div><div class="po2">He established it, yea, and searched it out.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And unto man He said:</div><div class="po2">‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;</div><div class="po2">And to depart from evil is 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