Book - Job - Chapter = 28 --> NLT
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"People know how to mine silver and refine gold.
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They know how to dig iron from the earth and smelt copper from stone.
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They know how to put light into darkness and explore the farthest, darkest regions of the earth as they search for ore.
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They sink a mine shaft into the earth far from where anyone lives. They descend on ropes, swinging back and forth.
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Bread comes from the earth, but below the surface the earth is melted as by fire.
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"People know how to find sapphires and gold dust--
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treasures that no bird of prey can see, no falcon's eye observe--
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for they are deep within the mines. No wild animal has ever walked upon those treasures; no lion has set his paw there.
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People know how to tear apart flinty rocks and overturn the roots of mountains.
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They cut tunnels in the rocks and uncover precious stones.
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They dam up the trickling streams and bring to light the hidden treasures.
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"But do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding?
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No one knows where to find it, for it is not found among the living.
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`It is not here,' says the ocean. `Nor is it here,' says the sea.
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"It cannot be bought for gold or silver.
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Its value is greater than all the gold of Ophir, greater than precious onyx stone or sapphires.
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Wisdom is far more valuable than gold and crystal. It cannot be purchased with jewels mounted in fine gold.
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Coral and valuable rock crystal are worthless in trying to get it. The price of wisdom is far above pearls.
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Topaz from Ethiopia cannot be exchanged for it. Its value is greater than the purest gold.
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"But do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding?
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For it is hidden from the eyes of all humanity. Even the sharp-eyed birds in the sky cannot discover it.
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But Destruction and Death say, `We have heard a rumor of where wisdom can be found.'
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"God surely knows where it can be found,
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for he looks throughout the whole earth, under all the heavens.
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He made the winds blow and determined how much rain should fall.
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He made the laws of the rain and prepared a path for the lightning.
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Then, when he had done all this, he saw wisdom and measured it. He established it and examined it thoroughly.
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And this is what he says to all humanity: `The fear of the Lord is true wisdom; to forsake evil is real understanding.'"