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King James Bible


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28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.  
28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.  
28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.    
28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.    
28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.    
28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.  
28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:    
28:8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.    
28:9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.  
28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.    
28:11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.  
28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?    
28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.    
28:14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.    
28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.  
28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.  
28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.  
28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.  
28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.  
28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?    
28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.  
28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.    
28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.    
28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;    
28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.    
28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:    
28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.  
28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.    

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