Job 28

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Surely there is a mine for silver,

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Iron is taken out of the earth,

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Man setteth an end to darkness,

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He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn;

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As for the earth, out of it cometh bread;

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The stones thereof are the place of sapphires,

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That path no bird of prey knoweth,

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The proud beasts have not trodden it,

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He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock;

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He cutteth out channels among the rocks;

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He bindeth the streams that they trickle not;

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But where shall wisdom be found?

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Man knoweth not the price thereof;

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The deep saith, It is not in me;

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It cannot be gotten for gold,

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It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,

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Gold and glass cannot equal it,

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No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal:

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The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,

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Whence then cometh wisdom?

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Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,

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Destruction and Death say,

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God understandeth the way thereof,

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For he looketh to the ends of the earth,

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To make a weight for the wind:

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When he made a decree for the rain,

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Then did he see it, and declare it;

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And unto man he said,