028:004 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth. 028:005 As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. 028:006 Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold. 028:007 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it. 028:008 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there. 028:009 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots. 028:010 He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing. 028:011 He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light. 028:012 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding? 028:013 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living. 028:014 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.' 028:015 It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price. 028:016 It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}. 028:017 Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 028:018 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies. 028:019 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold. 028:020 Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding? 028:021 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky. 028:022 Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.' 028:023 "God understands its way, and he knows its place. 028:024 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky. 028:025 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure. 028:026 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder; 028:027 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out. 028:028 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'" 029:001 Job again took up his parable, and said, 029:002 "Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; 029:003 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, 029:004 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent, 029:005 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me, 029:006 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me, 029:007 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat