📖 Job 28
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There is a place wher siluer is brought out of, and where golde is tryed,
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Where yron is digged out of the grounde, & stones resolued to metall.
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The darkenesse shall once come to an ende: he can seke out the grounde of all thinges, the stones, the darke, and the shadowe of death.
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He causeth the fluddes to breake out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, beyng hygher then man, are gone away.
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Out of the same earth commeth bread, and vnder it as it were fire is turned vp.
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The stones of it are a place of Saphires, and the dust of it is golde.
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There is a way that the birdes knowe not, that no vultures eye hath seene:
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Wherin the lions whelpes walke not, and where no lion commeth.
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There putteth he his hande vpon the stonie rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaynes by the rootes.
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Riuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seeth it.
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He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.
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Where then is wysdome founde? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
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Ueryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue.
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The deepe sayth, She is not in me: the sea sayth, She is not with me.
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She can not be gotten for golde, neither may the price of her be bought with any siluer.
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No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphires may be valued with her.
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No, neither golde nor christall shall be equall vnto it, nor her exchaunge shalbe for the plate of fine golde.
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No mention shalbe made of Corall nor of the Gabis: for wisdome is more precious then pearles.
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The Topas of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure golde.
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Whence then commeth wysdome? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
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She is hid from the eyes of all men liuing, yea & from the foules of the ayre.
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Destruction and death say, We haue hearde the fame therof with our eares.
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But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place.
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For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen.
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When he wayed the windes and measured the waters:
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When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightninges of the thunder:
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Then dyd he see her, then declared he her, prepared her, and knewe her.
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And vnto man he sayd: To feare the Lorde is wysdome, and to forsake euyll is vnderstanding.