Job

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