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Job 28 📜 📕 ↷
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
1 SILVER hath beginnings of her veins, and gold hath a place, wherein it is molten.📜💬📚
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, & stone resolved with heat, is turned into brass.📜💬📚
3 He hath set a time for darkness, & the end of all things he considereth, the stone also of darkness, and the shadow of death.📜💬📚
4 The torrent divideth from the pilgrim people, them whom the foot of the needy man hath forgotten, and to whom there is no way.📜💬📚
5 The land, out of which bread grew in his place, is destroyed with fire.📜💬📚
6 The place of the sapphire the stones thereof, and the clods of it gold.📜💬📚
7 The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.📜💬📚
8 The children of merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.📜💬📚
9 He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overthrown mountains from the roots.📜💬📚
10 In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.📜💬📚
11 The depths also of rivers he hath searched, & hid things he hath brought forth to light:📜💬📚
12 But where is wisdom to be found, and what is the place of understanding?📜💬📚
13 Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of them that live pleasantly.📜💬📚
14 The depth saith: It is not in me: and the sea speaketh: It is not with me.📜💬📚
15 The finest gold shall not be given for it, neither shall silver be weighed in the change thereof.📜💬📚
16 It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, nor with Sardonyx the most precious stone, or with the Sapphire.📜💬📚
17 Gold or glass shall not be equal to it, neither shall vessels of gold be changed for it.📜💬📚
18 High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: and wisdom is drawn out of secret places.📜💬📚
19 The topazius of Aethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest dying.📜💬📚
20 From whence then cometh wisdom? And what is the place of understanding?📜💬📚
21 It is hid from the eyes of all living, the fowls of the air also know it not.📜💬📚
22 Perdition & death have said: With our ears we have heard the same thereof.📜💬📚
23 God understandeth the way of it, & he knoweth the place thereof.📜💬📚
24 For he beholdeth the ends of the world, & looketh on all things that are under heaven.📜💬📚
25 Who made a poise to the winds, & weighed the waters in a measure.📜💬📚
26 When he gave a law to the rains, & a way to the sounding storms.📜💬📚
27 Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it.📜💬📚
28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of our Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, understanding.📜💬📚
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