acv - 28

acv@Job:28:1 @ Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

acv@Job:28:2 @ Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is molten out of the stone.

acv@Job:28:3 @ [Man] sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

acv@Job:28:4 @ He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn, [paths] forgotten by the foot. They hang afar from men; they swing to and fro.

acv@Job:28:5 @ As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

acv@Job:28:6 @ The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

acv@Job:28:7 @ No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the falcon's eye seen it.

acv@Job:28:8 @ The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed thereby.

acv@Job:28:9 @ He puts forth his hand upon the flinty rock. He overturns the mountains by the roots.

acv@Job:28:10 @ He cuts out channels among the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

acv@Job:28:11 @ He binds the streams that they not trickle. And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.

acv@Job:28:12 @ But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

acv@Job:28:13 @ Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.

acv@Job:28:14 @ The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me.

acv@Job:28:15 @ It cannot be gotten for gold, nor shall silver be weighed for the price of it.

acv@Job:28:16 @ It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

acv@Job:28:17 @ Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

acv@Job:28:18 @ No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

acv@Job:28:19 @ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, nor shall it be valued with pure gold.

acv@Job:28:20 @ Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?

acv@Job:28:21 @ Since it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the birds of the heavens.

acv@Job:28:22 @ Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.

acv@Job:28:23 @ God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.

acv@Job:28:24 @ For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven,

acv@Job:28:25 @ to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure.

acv@Job:28:26 @ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

acv@Job:28:27 @ then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yea, and searched it out.

acv@Job:28:28 @ And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

Job 28