Job 28 · Clearspring

Where Can Wisdom Be Found?

¹Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.+ ²Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.+ ³He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.+ ⁴The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.+ ⁵As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.+ ⁶The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.+ ⁷There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:+ ⁸The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.+ ⁹He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.+ ¹⁰He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.+ ¹¹He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.+ ¹²But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?+ ¹³Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.+ ¹⁴The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.+ ¹⁵It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.+ ¹⁶It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.+ ¹⁷The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.+ ¹⁸No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.+ ¹⁹The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.+ ²⁰Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?+ ²¹Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.+ ²²Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.+ ²³God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.+ ²⁴For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;+ ²⁵To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.+ ²⁶When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:+ ²⁷Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.+ ²⁸And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.+

Where Can Wisdom Be Found?

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