18:028:016 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 18:028:017 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. 18:028:018 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. 18:028:019 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. 18:028:020 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? 18:028:021 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 18:028:022 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 18:028:023 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 18:028:024 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; 18:028:025 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. 18:028:026 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: 18:028:027 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. 18:028:028 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. 18:029:001 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 18:029:002 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 18:029:003 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 18:029:004 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; 18:029:005 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; 18:029:006 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; 18:029:007 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 18:029:008 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 18:029:009 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 18:029:010 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 18:029:011 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 18:029:012 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 18:029:013 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 18:029:014 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 18:029:015 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 18:029:016 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.