Job 28:1-19

American Standard Version

28 ^[a]Surely there is a mine for silver,
And a place for gold which they refine.
² Iron is taken out of the ^[b]earth,
And copper is molten out of the stone.
³ Man setteth an end to darkness,
And searcheth out, to the furthest bound,
The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
^4 [c]He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn;
They are forgotten of the foot;
They hang afar from men, they ^[d]swing to and fro.
⁵ As for the earth, out of it cometh bread;
And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
⁶ The stones thereof are the place of sapphires,
^[e]And it hath dust of gold.
⁷ That path no bird of prey knoweth,
Neither hath the falcon’s eye seen it:
⁸ The ^[f]proud beasts have not trodden it,
Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
⁹ He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock;
He overturneth the mountains by the roots.
¹⁰ He cutteth out ^[g]channels among the rocks;
And his eye seeth every precious thing.
¹¹ He bindeth the streams ^[h]that they trickle not;
And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

¹² But where shall wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?
¹³ Man knoweth not the price thereof;
Neither is it found in the land of the living.
¹⁴ The deep saith, It is not in me;
And the sea saith, It is not with me.
¹⁵ It cannot be gotten for ^[i]gold,
Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
¹⁶ It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,
With the precious ^[j]onyx, or the sapphire.
¹⁷ Gold and glass cannot equal it,
Neither shall it be exchanged for ^[k]jewels of fine gold.
¹⁸ No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal:
Yea, the price of wisdom is above ^[l]rubies.
¹⁹ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,
Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.