Thematic Bible
Job 28:1 (show verse)
Surely there is a mine for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.
Job 28:2 (show verse)
Iron is taken out of the dust, and bronze is melted out of the stone.
Job 28:3 (show verse)
He set a border unto the darkness, and unto every perfect work that he made, he placed a stone of darkness and shadow of death.
Job 28:4 (show verse)
The river breaks forth next to the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot, that were higher than man, are gone away.
Job 28:5 (show verse)
Land out of which bread comes forth, and underneath it shall be as if it were converted in fire.
Job 28:6 (show verse)
A place where its stones shall be sapphires; and it shall have dust of gold.
Job 28:7 (show verse)
A path which no fowl knows and which the vulture's eye has never seen;
Job 28:8 (show verse)
the young of the proud have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by it.
Job 28:9 (show verse)
He put his hand upon the flint and overturned the mountains from the root.
Job 28:10 (show verse)
He cut rivers out of the rocks; and his eye saw every precious thing.
Job 28:11 (show verse)
He detained the rivers in their source and caused that which was hid to be brought to light.
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Job 28:12 (show verse)
But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:13 (show verse)
Man never knew its price; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Job 28:14 (show verse)
The deep saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Job 28:15 (show verse)
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
Job 28:16 (show verse)
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx or the sapphire.
Job 28:17 (show verse)
Gold cannot equal it, nor can diamond; neither shall it be exchanged for vessels of fine gold.
Job 28:18 (show verse)
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for wisdom is better than precious stones.
Job 28:19 (show verse)
The emerald of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Job 28:20 (show verse)
Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:21 (show verse)
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept concealed from every fowl of the heaven.
Job 28:22 (show verse)
Hell and death say, We have heard its fame with our ears.
Job 28:23 (show verse)
God understands its way, and he alone knows its place.
Job 28:24 (show verse)
For he looks unto the ends of the earth and sees under the whole heaven,
Job 28:25 (show verse)
To make a weight for the wind and to supply water by measure,
Job 28:26 (show verse)
when he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders.
Job 28:27 (show verse)
Then he saw it and counted it; he prepared it and also searched it out.
Job 28:28 (show verse)
And unto man he said, Behold, that the fear of the Lord, is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.