Parallel
Job 28
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
“Surely there is a mine for silver,
“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
Man sets an end to darkness,
Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
He breaks open a shaft away from where people live.
Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
As for the earth, out of it comes bread.
Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
Sapphires come from its rocks.
Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
The proud animals have not trodden it,
Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
He puts his hand on the flinty rock,
The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.
He cuts out channels amongst the rocks.
He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.
He binds the streams that they don’t trickle.
He stops up (note: Hebrew; LXX and Vulgate He searches) the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
“But where will wisdom be found?
But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
Man doesn’t know its price,
No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’
The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’
It can’t be gotten for gold,
It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir,
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
Gold and glass can’t equal it,
Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it.
No mention will be made of coral or of crystal.
Coral and quartz are unworthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it.
Topaz from Cush (note: That is, the upper Nile region) cannot compare to it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
Where then does wisdom come from?
From where, then, does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living,
It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
Destruction and Death say,
Abaddon (note: Abaddon means Destruction.) and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
For he looks to the ends of the earth,
For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
He establishes the force of the wind.
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
When he made a decree for the rain,
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
then he saw it, and declared it.
then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.
To man he said,
And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”