Job 28
Job 28:1 Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
Job 28:2 Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is smelted from ore.
Job 28:3 He puts an end to the darkness; he probes the deepest recesses for ore in the gloomy darkness.
Job 28:4 Far from where people live, he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other mortals, he dangles and sways.
Job 28:5 Food may come from the ground, but below the surface it is transformed as by fire.
Job 28:6 Its rocks are a source of lapis lazuli, containing flecks of gold.
Job 28:7 That path no bird of prey knows; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
Job 28:8 Proud beasts have never walked on it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
Job 28:9 He uses a flint tool and turns up ore from the root of the mountains.
Job 28:10 He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.
Job 28:11 He dams up the streams from flowing so that he may bring to light what is hidden.
Job 28:12 But where can wisdom be found, and where is insight located?
Job 28:13 No mortal can know its value since it cannot be found in the land of the living.
Job 28:14 The ocean depths say, “It’s not in me,” while the sea declares, “I don’t have it.”
Job 28:15 Gold cannot be exchanged for it, and silver cannot be weighed out for its price.
Job 28:16 Wisdom cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or lapis lazuli.
Job 28:17 Gold and glass do not compare with it, and articles of fine gold cannot be exchanged for it.
Job 28:18 Coral and quartz are not worth mentioning. The price of wisdom is beyond pearls.
Job 28:19 Topaz from Cush cannot compare with it, and it cannot be valued in pure gold.
Job 28:20 Where then does wisdom come from, and where is insight located?
Job 28:21 It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the sky.
Job 28:22 Abaddon and Death say, “We have heard news of it with our ears.”
Job 28:23 But God understands the way to wisdom, and he knows its location.
Job 28:24 For he looks to the ends of the land and sees everything under the sky.
Job 28:25 When God fixed the weight of the wind and distributed the water by measure,
Job 28:26 when he established a limit for the rain and a path for the lightning,
Job 28:27 he considered wisdom and evaluated it; he established it and examined it.
Job 28:28 He said to mankind, “The fear of Yahveh — that is wisdom. And to turn from evil is insight.”
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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, January 21, 2022
the wisdom mine
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