Iyov 28  Orthodox Jewish Bible

28 Surely there is a mine for the kesef, and a makom for zahav where they refine it.

² Barzel (iron) is taken out of aphar, and nechoshet is smelted out of the even (stone, ore).

³ He setteth a ketz to choshech, and searcheth out all extremities, the even (ore) of darkness and tzalmavet.

⁴ He cuts out a shaft down far from the inhabitant; forgotten of the regel, they dangle, suspended, away from enosh.

⁵ As for eretz, out of it cometh lechem, and under it is transformed as by eish.

⁶ The stones of it are the makom of the sapphire, and it hath ore of zahav.

⁷ There is a hidden path of which no bird of prey has da’as, and which the falcon’s eye hath not seen.

⁸ The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the shachal (lion’s cub) passed over it.

⁹ He [the miner] putteth forth his yad upon the rock; he upturneth the mountains by the shoresh.

¹⁰ He cutteth out channels through the tzurot (rocks), and his eye seeth every precious thing.

¹¹ He dams up the streams from flowing, and the thing that is hidden bringeth he forth to ohr.

¹² But where shall chochmah be found? And where is the makom binah?

¹³ Enosh knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the Eretz HaChayyim.

¹⁴ The tehom (abyss) saith, It is not in me; and the yam saith, It is not with me.

¹⁵ It cannot be gotten in exchange for fine gold, neither shall kesef be weighed for the price thereof.

¹⁶ It cannot be valued with the fine gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

¹⁷ The zahav and the crystal cannot equal it, and the exchange of it shall not be for the jewel of gold.

¹⁸ Nor shall mention be made of coral or crystal, for the price of chochmah is above pearls.

¹⁹ The chrysolite of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with tahor gold.

²⁰ From where then cometh chochmah? And where is the makom binah?

²¹ Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of kol chai, and concealed from the oph HaShomayim.

²² Abaddon and Mavet say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.

²³ Elohim understandeth the way to it, and He knoweth the makom thereof.

²⁴ For He looketh to the ketzot ha’aretz, and seeth all under Shomayim.

²⁵ The weight He appointed for the ruach, and He weigheth the mayim by measure.

²⁶ When He made a decree for the matar, and a derech for the lightning of the thunder,

²⁷ Az (then) did He see it, and declare it; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

²⁸ And unto adam He said, See, the Yirat Adonoi, that is chochmah, and to depart from rah is binah.