Job:28-30
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Surely there is a vein for the silver ,
and a place for gold where they fine it .
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Iron is taken out of the earth ,
and brass is molten out of the stone .
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He setteth an end to darkness ,
and searcheth out all perfection :
the stones of darkness ,
and the shadow of death .
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The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant ;
even the waters forgotten of the foot :
they are dried up ,
they are gone away from men .
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As for the earth ,
out of it cometh bread :
and under it is turned up as it were fire .
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The stones of it are the place of sapphires :
and it hath dust of gold .
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There is a path which no fowl knoweth ,
and which the vulture '
s eye hath not seen :
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The lion '
s whelps have not trodden it ,
nor the fierce lion passed by it .
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He putteth forth his hand upon the rock ;
he overturneth the mountains by the roots .
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He cutteth out rivers among the rocks ;
and his eye seeth every precious thing .
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He bindeth the floods from overflowing ;
and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light .
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But where shall wisdom be found ?
and where is the place of understanding ?
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Man knoweth not the price thereof ;
neither is it found in the land of the living .
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The depth saith ,
It is not in me :
and the sea saith ,
It is not with me .
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It cannot be gotten for gold ,
neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof .
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It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir ,
with the precious onyx ,
or the sapphire .
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The gold and the crystal cannot equal it :
and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold .
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No mention shall be made of coral ,
or of pearls :
for the price of wisdom is above rubies .
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The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it ,
neither shall it be valued with pure gold .
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Whence then cometh wisdom ?
and where is the place of understanding ?
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Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living ,
and kept close from the fowls of the air .
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Destruction and death say ,
We have heard the fame thereof with our ears .
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God understandeth the way thereof ,
and he knoweth the place thereof .
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For he looketh to the ends of the earth ,
and seeth under the whole heaven ;
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To make the weight for the winds ;
and he weigheth the waters by measure .
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When he made a decree for the rain ,
and a way for the lightning of the thunder :
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Then did he see it ,
and declare it ;
he prepared it ,
yea ,
and searched it out .
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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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Moreover Job continued his parable ,
and said ,
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Oh that I were as in months past ,
as in the days when God preserved me ;
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When his candle shined upon my head ,
and when by his light I walked through darkness ;
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As I was in the days of my youth ,
when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle ;
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When the Almighty was yet with me ,
when my children were about me ;
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When I washed my steps with butter ,
and the rock poured me out rivers of oil ;
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When I went out to the gate through the city ,
when I prepared my seat in the street !
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The young men saw me ,
and hid themselves :
and the aged arose ,
and stood up .
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The princes refrained talking ,
and laid their hand on their mouth .
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The nobles held their peace ,
and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth .
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When the ear heard me ,
then it blessed me ;
and when the eye saw me ,
it gave witness to me :
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Because I delivered the poor that cried ,
and the fatherless ,
and him that had none to help him .
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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me :
and I caused the widow '
s heart to sing for joy .
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I put on righteousness ,
and it clothed me :
my judgment was as a robe and a diadem .
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I was eyes to the blind ,
and feet was I to the lame .
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I was a father to the poor :
and the cause which I knew not I searched out .
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And I brake the jaws of the wicked ,
and plucked the spoil out of his teeth .
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Then I said ,
I shall die in my nest ,
and I shall multiply my days as the sand .
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My root was spread out by the waters ,
and the dew lay all night upon my branch .
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My glory was fresh in me ,
and my bow was renewed in my hand .
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Unto me men gave ear ,
and waited ,
and kept silence at my counsel .
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After my words they spake not again ;
and my speech dropped upon them .
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And they waited for me as for the rain ;
and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain .
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If I laughed on them ,
they believed it not ;
and the light of my countenance they cast not down .
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I chose out their way ,
and sat chief ,
and dwelt as a king in the army ,
as one that comforteth the mourners .
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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision ,
whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock .
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Yea ,
whereto might the strength of their hands profit me ,
in whom old age was perished ?
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For want and famine they were solitary ;
fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste .
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes ,
and juniper roots for their meat .
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They were driven forth from among men , (
they cried after them as after a thief ;)
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To dwell in the clifts of the valleys ,
in caves of the earth ,
and in the rocks .
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Among the bushes they brayed ;
under the nettles they were gathered together .
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They were children of fools ,
yea ,
children of base men :
they were viler than the earth .
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And now am I their song ,
yea ,
I am their byword .
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They abhor me ,
they flee far from me ,
and spare not to spit in my face .
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Because he hath loosed my cord ,
and afflicted me ,
they have also let loose the bridle before me .
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Upon my right hand rise the youth ;
they push away my feet ,
and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction .
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They mar my path ,
they set forward my calamity ,
they have no helper .
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They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters :
in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me .
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Terrors are turned upon me :
they pursue my soul as the wind :
and my welfare passeth away as a cloud .
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And now my soul is poured out upon me ;
the days of affliction have taken hold upon me .
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My bones are pierced in me in the night season :
and my sinews take no rest .
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By the great force of my disease is my garment changed :
it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat .
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He hath cast me into the mire ,
and I am become like dust and ashes .
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I cry unto thee ,
and thou dost not hear me :
I stand up ,
and thou regardest me not .
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Thou art become cruel to me :
with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me .
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Thou liftest me up to the wind ;
thou causest me to ride upon it ,
and dissolvest my substance .
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For I know that thou wilt bring me to death ,
and to the house appointed for all living .
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Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave ,
though they cry in his destruction .
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Did not I weep for him that was in trouble ?
was not my soul grieved for the poor ?
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When I looked for good ,
then evil came unto me :
and when I waited for light ,
there came darkness .
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My bowels boiled ,
and rested not :
the days of affliction prevented me .
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I went mourning without the sun :
I stood up ,
and I cried in the congregation .
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I am a brother to dragons ,
and a companion to owls .
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My skin is black upon me ,
and my bones are burned with heat .
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My harp also is turned to mourning ,
and my organ into the voice of them that weep .
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I made a covenant with mine eyes ;
why then should I think upon a maid ?
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