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28:1 The siluer surely hath his veyne, and ye gold his place, where they take it.
28:2 Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.
28:3 God putteth an end to darkenesse, and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkenesse, and of the shadowe of death.
28:4 The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.
28:5 Out of the same earth commeth bread, and vnder it, as it were fire is turned vp.
28:6 The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.
28:7 There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.
28:8 The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.
28:9 He putteth his hand vpon the rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.
28:10 He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
28:11 He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.
28:12 But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.
28:14 The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.
28:15 Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.
28:16 It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.
28:17 The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.
28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles.
28:19 The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.
28:20 Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding,
28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen?
28:22 Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.
28:23 But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
28:24 For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen,
28:25 To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.
28:26 When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,
28:27 Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it.
28:28 And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart from euil is vnderstanding.