Job 28

1“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.Cross-references: Gen 2:11 · Gen 23:15 · Gen 24:22 · 1Ki 7:48 · 1Ki 10:21 · 1Chr 29:2 · +7 more

2Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.Cross-references: Gen 4:22 · Num 31:22 · Deut 8:9 · 1Chr 22:14

3Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.Cross-references: Job 10:21 · Job 12:22 · Job 38:16 · Prov 2:4 · Eccl 1:13 · Hab 2:13 · +2 more

4He 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.

5As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.Cross-references: Gen 1:11 · Gen 1:29 · Ps 104:14 · Isa 28:25 · Ezek 28:13

6Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.Cross-references: Ex 24:10 · Job 28:16 · Song 5:14 · Isa 54:11 · Rev 21:19

7That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.Cross-references: Job 11:6 · Job 28:21 · Job 38:19 · Job 38:24 · Rom 11:33

8The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

9He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.Cross-references: Nah 1:4

10He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.Cross-references: Prov 14:23 · Prov 24:4 · Hab 3:9

11He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.Cross-references: Job 26:8 · Isa 37:25 · Isa 44:27 · Isa 45:2 · 1Cor 4:5

12“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?Cross-references: 1Ki 3:9 · Job 28:20 · Job 28:28 · Ps 51:6 · Prov 2:4 · Prov 3:19 · +5 more

13Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.Cross-references: Job 28:15 · Job 28:21 · Ps 19:10 · Ps 52:5 · Ps 119:72 · Prov 3:14 · +8 more

14The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’Cross-references: Rom 11:33

15It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.Cross-references: Job 28:18 · Prov 3:13 · Prov 8:10 · Prov 8:17 · Prov 8:19 · Prov 16:16

16It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.Cross-references: Ex 28:20 · 1Chr 29:4 · Ps 45:9 · Isa 13:12 · Ezek 28:13

17Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.Cross-references: Prov 16:16 · Ezek 1:22 · Rev 4:6 · Rev 21:11 · Rev 22:1

18No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.Cross-references: Prov 3:15 · Prov 8:11 · Prov 31:10 · Lam 4:7 · Ezek 27:16 · Matt 7:6 · +5 more

19The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it. It won’t be valued with pure gold.Cross-references: Ex 28:17 · Ex 39:10 · Prov 8:19 · Ezek 28:13 · Rev 21:20

20Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?Cross-references: Job 28:12 · Job 28:23 · Job 28:28 · Prov 2:6 · Eccl 7:23 · 1Cor 2:6 · +2 more

21Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.Cross-references: Ps 49:3 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 13:17 · Matt 13:35 · 1Cor 2:7 · Col 2:3

22Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’Cross-references: Job 26:6 · Job 28:14 · Ps 83:10

23“God understands its way, and he knows its place.Cross-references: Ps 19:7 · Ps 147:5 · Prov 2:6 · Prov 8:14 · Prov 8:22 · Matt 11:27 · +5 more

24For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.Cross-references: 2Chr 16:9 · Ps 33:13 · Prov 15:3 · Zech 4:10 · Rev 5:6

25He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.Cross-references: Job 12:15 · Ps 135:7 · Isa 40:12

26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,Cross-references: Job 36:26 · Job 36:32 · Job 37:3 · Job 37:11 · Job 38:25 · Job 38:27 · +5 more

27then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.Cross-references: Ps 19:1 · Prov 8:22

28To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”Cross-references: Deut 4:6 · Deut 29:29 · Ps 34:14 · Ps 111:10 · Prov 1:7 · Prov 3:7 · +10 more