28:3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.
28:4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.
28:5 As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
28:6 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
28:7 No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.
28:8 The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.
28:9 Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.
28:10 He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.
28:11 He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.
28:12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting- place of knowledge?
28:13 Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.
28:14 The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
28:15 Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.
28:16 It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.
