en_cepher - Job 28 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ SURELY there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

² Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

³ He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

⁴ The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

⁵ As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

⁶ The stones of it are the place of caphires: and it has dust of gold.

⁷ There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture's eye has not seen:

⁸ The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

⁹ He puts forth his hand upon the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.

¹⁰ He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.

¹¹ He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.

¹² But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

¹³ Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

¹⁴ The depth says, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

¹⁵ It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

¹⁶ It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophiyr, with the precious onyx, or the caphire.

¹⁷ The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

¹⁸ No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

¹⁹ The topaz of Kush shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

²⁰ Whence then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

²¹ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

²² Abaddon and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

²³ Elohiym understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.

²⁴ For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;

²⁵ To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.

²⁶ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

²⁷ Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

²⁸ And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of Adonai, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.