28:1. Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted. 28:2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass. 28:3. He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death. 28:4. The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at. 28:5. The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire. 28:6. The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold. 28:7. The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it. 28:8. The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it. 28:9. He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots. 28:10. In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing. 28:11. The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light. 28:12. But where is wisdom to 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 them that live in delights. 28:14. The depth saith: It is not in me: and the sea saith: It is not with me. 28:15. The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it. 28:16. It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire. 28:17. Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of gold be changed for it. 28:18. High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places. 28:19. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest dyeing. 28:20. Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? 28:21. It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not. 28:22. Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof. 28:23. God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof. 28:24. For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven. 28:25. Who made a weight for the winds, and weighed the waters by measure. 28:26. When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms. 28:27. Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it. 28:28. And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding. Job Chapter 29 Job relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men shewed him. 29:1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said: 29:2. Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?