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taken out of the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and copper is smelted from ore.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Miners put<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15578a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> an end to darkness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and search out to the farthest bound</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the ore in gloom and deep darkness.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>They open shafts in a valley away from human habitation;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they are forgotten by travelers,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they sway suspended, remote from people.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>As for the earth, out of it comes bread;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but underneath it is turned up as by fire.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Its stones are the place of sapphires,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15581b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and its dust contains gold.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>“That path no bird of prey knows,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the falcon’s eye has not seen it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The proud wild animals have not trodden it;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the lion has not passed over it.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>“They put their hand to the flinty rock,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and overturn mountains by the roots.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>They cut out channels in the rocks,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and their eyes see every precious thing.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The sources of the rivers they probe;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15586c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">hidden things they bring to light.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>“But where shall wisdom be found?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">And where is the place of understanding?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Mortals do not know the way to it,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15588d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and it is not found in the land of the living.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>It cannot be gotten for gold,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and silver cannot be weighed out as its price.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in precious onyx or sapphire.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15591e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Gold and glass cannot equal it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the price of wisdom is above pearls.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>The chrysolite of Ethiopia<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15594f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> cannot compare with it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nor can it be valued in pure gold.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>“Where then does wisdom come from?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">And where is the place of understanding?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>It is hidden from the eyes of all living,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and concealed from the birds of the air.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Abaddon and Death say,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>“God understands the way to it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and he knows its place.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>For he looks to the ends of the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and sees everything under the heavens.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>When he gave to the wind its weight,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and apportioned out the waters by measure;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>when he made a decree for the rain,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and a way for the thunderbolt;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>then he saw it and declared it;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he established it, and searched it out.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>And he said to humankind,</span><br /><span class="text">‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and to depart from evil is understanding.’”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 28:3">Job 28:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>He puts</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 28:6">Job 28:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>lapis lazuli</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 28:11">Job 28:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Vg: Heb <i>bind</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 28:13">Job 28:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>its price</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 28:16">Job 28:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>lapis lazuli</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 28:19">Job 28:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Nubia</i>; Heb <i>Cush</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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