Job 28

Revised Geneva Translation

28 “Silver surely has its vein, and gold its refining place.

² “Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is smelted out of the stone.

³ “God sets an end to darkness, and He tests the perfection of all things. He sets a bond of darkness and of the shadow of death.

⁴ “The torrent breaks out against the sojourner, forgotten by the foot. They hang lower than man, gone far away.

⁵ “Out of the same earth comes bread. And under it, as it were, fire is turned up,

⁶ “its stones a place of sapphires, and the dust of it gold.

⁷ “There is a path which no bird has known, nor has the kite’s eye seen it.

⁸ “The lion’s whelps have not walked it, nor the lion passed by it.

⁹ “He puts His Hand upon the rocks and overthrows the mountains by the roots.

¹⁰ “He breaks rivers in the roots, and His Eye sees every precious thing.

¹¹ “He binds the rivers, so that they do not overflow. And the thing that is hidden He brings to light.

¹² “But where is wisdom found? And where is the place of understanding?

¹³ “Man does not know its price. For it is not found in the land of the living.

¹⁴ “The depth says, ‘It is not in me.’ The sea also says, ‘It is not with me.’

¹⁵ “Gold shall not be given for it, nor shall silver be weighed for its price.

¹⁶ “It shall not be valued with the wedge of gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

¹⁷ “Neither gold nor crystal shall be equal to it, nor shall it be exchanged for jewelry of fine gold.

¹⁸ “No mention shall be made of coral or of the gabish. For wisdom is more precious than pearls.

¹⁹ “The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, nor shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.

²⁰ “From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding,

²¹ “seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all the living, and is hidden from the birds of the heaven?

²² “Destruction and death say, ‘We have heard of its fame with our ears.’

²³ “God understands its way. And He knows its place.

²⁴ “For He beholds the ends of the world, sees all that is under Heaven,

²⁵ “to make the weight of the winds and to weigh the waters by measure.

²⁶ “When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders,

²⁷ “then He saw it and counted it. He prepared it and also considered it.

²⁸ “And to man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the LORD is wisdom. And to depart from evil is understanding.’”