Job 28:1-12 ▼

1 “ Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for the gold that they refine.

2 Iron is taken from the dust, and from rock copper is smelted.

3 An end he has set for the darkness, yet to every limit he is searching out, a stone in darkness and the shadow of death.

4 He opens a shaft away from habitation; those forgotten by the foot, they hang down away from man, and they sway.

5 The earth, from which bread comes forth, and underneath is turned as by fire—

6 a place of sapphire are its stones, and dust of gold is unto it.

7 The path no bird of prey knows, and no eye of a falcon has seen it.

8 The sons of pride have not trodden it, and the lion has not passed over it.

9 Against the flinty rock he stretched out his hand; he overturns the hills from the root.

10 In the rocks he cuts out channels, and his eye sees every precious thing.

11 The rivers he has bound from weeping, and a hidden thing he brings to light.

12 And wisdom—from where is it found? And where is this place of understanding?