Job 28

¹Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

²Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

³Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

⁴He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

⁵As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

⁶The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

⁷That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon’s eye seen it:

⁸The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.

⁹He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

¹⁰He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing.

¹¹He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; 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 deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me.