Job 28 - Job said that only God knew where wisdom could be found.

028:001 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

028:002 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

028:003 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

028:004 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

028:005 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

028:006 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

028:007 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

028:008 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

028:009 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

028:010 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

028:011 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

028:012 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

028:013 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

028:014 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

028:015 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

028:016 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

028:017 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

028:018 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for 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 cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

028:021 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

028:022 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

028:023 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

028:024 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;

028:025 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth 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 did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

028:028 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.