028:001
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

028:002
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

028:003
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

028:004
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

028:005
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

028:006
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

028:007
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

028:008
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

028:009
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

028:010
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

028:011
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

028:012
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

028:013
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

028:014
The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

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028:015
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

028:016
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

028:017
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

028:018
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

028:019
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

028:020
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

028:021
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

028:022
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

028:023
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

028:024
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;

028:025
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

028:026
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

028:027
Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

028:028
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

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