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<i>even the waters</i> forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1"><i>As for</i> the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The stones of it <i>are</i> the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1"><i>There is</i> a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon’s eye has not seen it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and <i>the thing that is</i> hid bringeth he forth to light.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But where shall wisdom be found? and where <i>is</i> the place of understanding?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The depth saith, It <i>is</i> not in me: and the sea saith, <i>It is</i> not with me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed <i>for</i> the price thereof.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it <i>shall not be for</i> jewels of fine gold.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom <i>is</i> above rubies.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Whence then cometh wisdom? and where <i>is</i> the place of understanding?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For he looketh to the ends of the earth, <i>and</i> seeth under the whole heaven;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that <i>is</i> wisdom; and to depart from evil <i>is</i> understanding.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">King James Bible, text courtesy of <a href="http://bibleprotector.com/">BibleProtector.com</a>.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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