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Job 28 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:1 - For there is a place for the silver, whence it comes, and a place for the gold, whence it is refined.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:2 - For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4 - There is a cutting off of the torrent by reason of dust: so they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:5 - As for the earth, out of it shall come bread: under it has been turned up as it were fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:6 - Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and her dust supplies man with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:7 - There is a path, the fowl has not known it, neither has the eye of the vulture seen it:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:8 - neither have the sons of the proud trodden it, a lion has not passed upon it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 - He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp rock, and turned up mountains by the roots:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 - and he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, and mine eye has seen every precious thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:11 - And he has laid bare the depths of rivers, and has brought his power to light.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:12 - But whence has wisdom been discovered? and what is the place of knowledge?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:13 - A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been discovered among men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14 - The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:15 - One shall not give fine gold instead of it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:16 - Neither shall it be compared with gold of Sophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:17 - Gold and crystal shall not be equalled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:18 - Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned: but do thou esteem wisdom above the most precious things.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:19 - The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equalled to it; it shall not be compared with pure gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:20 - Whence then is wisdom found? and of what kind is the place of understanding?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:21 - It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:22 - Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:23 - God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:24 - For he surveys the whole earth under heaven, knowing the things in the earth:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:25 - all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:26 - When he made them, thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:27 - Then he saw it, and declared it: he prepared it and traced it out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:28 - And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom; and to abstain from evil is understanding.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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