# Job 28

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/28

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Surely there is a source for silver, and a place for gold they refine.
2. Iron is taken from the dust, and copper is smelted from the stone.
3. He bounds the darkness and explores to the utmost the stones of thick gloom and the shadow of death.
4. He breaks open a watercourse away from the sojourner, the forgotten ones of the foot, which dry up from mortals and wander.
5. The earth yields bread from within it, yet underneath it lies overturned like fire.
6. Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has gold dust.
7. No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the vulture's eye seen it.
8. Sons of pride have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed over it.
9. He extends his hand against the flint rock and overturns the mountains from their roots.
10. He cleaves brooks in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
11. He binds streams from their overflowing and brings what is hidden out to light.
12. But where is wisdom found? Where is this place of understanding?
13. No mortal knows its worth, nor is it found in the land of the living.
14. The deep says, "It is not in me"; the sea says, "It is not with me."
15. Gold is not given for it, nor silver weighed for its price.
16. It cannot be valued with pure Ophir gold, with precious onyx, or sapphire.
17. Neither gold nor crystal can equal it, nor its exchange be a vessel of fine gold.
18. Coral and pearls are not mentioned, for the price of wisdom is greater than rubies.
19. Ethiopian topaz does not match it, nor is it valued with pure gold.
20. From where does wisdom come, and where is this place of understanding?
21. It is hidden from the eyes of every living creature and concealed from the birds of the sky.
22. Destruction and Death declare, "We have heard a report of it with our ears."
23. God discerns its way, and he knows its place.
24. For he beholds the ends of the earth and sees beneath all the heavens.
25. He makes a weight for the wind, and measures the waters by measure.
26. When he appointed a statute for the rain and a path for the thunderbolts,
27. Then he perceived it and recounted it; he confirmed it, and also examined it.
28. And he said to man, Behold, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and turning from evil is understanding.

## Nearby chapters

[Job 27](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/27.md)
[Job 29](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/29.md)

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