Job 28:1-13 ▼

1 For there is a going forth for silver, and a place for gold they will purify it.

2 Iron shall be taken from the dust, and stone will pour out brass.

3 He set an end to darkness, and he searched out for all completeness: the stone of darkness and the shadow of death.

4 The torrent broke out from the sojourner; being forgotten of the foot, they were weak, they wandered from men.

5 The earth, from it will come forth bread, and under it was turned as fire.

6 Its stones the place of the sapphire, and dust gold to it.

7 A beaten path the birds knew not, and the vulture's eye scanned it not:

8 The sons of pride trod it not, and the lion passed not by upon it.

9 He stretched forth his hand upon the flint; he overturned the mountains from the roots.

10 He cut rivers in the rocks, and his eye saw every precious thing.

11 He bound the rivers from weeping, and he will bring forth the hidden thing to light.

12 And from whence shall wisdom be found? and where this place of understanding?

13 And man knew not its estimation, and it shall not be found in the land of the living.