Job 28

1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. ¹ ‡ 1Pe 1:7Isa 48:10Mal 3:2-3Pro 17:31Ch 29:2-51Ki 10:211Ki 7:48-50Gen 2:11-12 +52 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. ² ‡ Deu 8:9Gen 4:22Num 31:221Ch 22:14 3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. ‡ Ecc 1:13Hab 2:13Job 10:21-22Job 12:22Job 38:16-17Luk 16:8Mat 6:33Pro 2:4 4 The flood breaketh 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 cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. ‡ Isa 28:25-29Ezk 28:13-14Gen 1:11-12Gen 1:29Psa 104:14-15 6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. ³ ‡ Exo 24:10Job 28:16Isa 54:11Rev 21:19Sng 5:14 7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen: ‡ Job 11:6Job 28:21-23Job 38:19Job 38:24Rom 11:33 8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. 9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. ⁴ ‡ Nam 1:4-6 10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. ‡ Hab 3:9Pro 14:23Pro 24:4 11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. ⁵ ‡ 1Co 4:5Isa 45:2-3Isa 37:25Isa 44:27Job 26:8 12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? ‡ Jas 1:5Job 28:20Pro 2:4-6Pro 3:191Co 1:19-20Col 2:3Ecc 7:23-25Jas 1:17 +313 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. ‡ Pro 3:14-15Pro 8:11Pro 8:18-19Ecc 8:16-17Isa 53:8Job 28:15-19Job 28:21-22Mat 13:44-46 +6

14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. ‡ Rom 11:33-34 15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. ⁶ ‡ Pro 16:16Pro 3:13-15Pro 8:10-11Pro 8:19Job 28:18Pro 8:17 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. ‡ Ezk 28:13Isa 13:12Psa 45:91Ch 29:4Exo 28:20 17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. ⁷ ‡ Rev 22:1Ezk 1:22Pro 16:16Rev 21:11Rev 4:6 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. ⁸ ‡ Pro 3:15Pro 31:10Ezk 27:16Lam 4:71Ti 2:9Mat 13:45-46Mat 7:6Pro 8:11 +319 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. ‡ Exo 28:17Exo 39:10Ezk 28:13Pro 8:19Rev 21:20

20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? ‡ Job 28:12Jas 1:17Jas 1:5Job 28:28Job 28:231Co 2:6-15Ecc 7:23-24Pro 2:6 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. ⁹ ‡ Psa 49:3-41Co 2:7-10Col 2:3Mat 11:25Mat 13:35Mat 13:17 22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. ‡ Job 26:6Psa 83:10-12Job 28:14 23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. ‡ Pro 8:22-311Co 1:30Jud 1:25Rom 11:33Pro 2:6Psa 147:5Act 15:18Luk 10:21-22 +324 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; ‡ Pro 15:3Zec 4:102Ch 16:9Psa 33:13-14Rev 5:6 25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. ‡ Psa 135:7Isa 40:12Job 12:15 26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: ‡ Job 38:25Job 37:3Zec 10:1Amo 4:7Jer 14:22Job 36:26Job 36:32Job 37:11 +327 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. ¹⁰ ‡ Psa 19:1Pro 8:22-29 28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. ‡ Psa 111:10Pro 1:7Pro 9:10Pro 3:7Ecc 12:13Deu 4:6Jas 3:13-17Psa 34:14 +8