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\c 28
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 Surely there is a mine for silver,
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\q a place where they refine gold.
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\q
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\v 2 Iron is taken out of the earth;
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\q copper is smelted out of the stone.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 A man sets an end to darkness
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\q and searches out, to the farthest limit,
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\q the stones in obscurity and thick darkness.
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\q
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\v 4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live,
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\q places that are forgotten by anyone’s foot.
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\q He hangs far away from people; he swings to and fro.
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\q
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\v 5 As for the earth, out of which comes bread,
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\q it is turned up below as if by fire.
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\q
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\v 6 Its stones are the place where sapphires are found,
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\q and its dust contains gold.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 7 No bird of prey knows the path to it,
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\q nor has the falcon’s eye seen it.
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\q
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\v 8 The proud animals have not walked such a path,
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\q nor has the fierce lion passed there.
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\q
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\v 9 A man lays his hand on the flinty rock;
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\q he overturns mountains by their roots.
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\q
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\v 10 He cuts out channels among the rocks;
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\q his eye sees every valuable thing there.
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\q
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\v 11 He ties up the streams so they do not run;
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\q what is hidden there he brings out to the light.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 Where will wisdom be found?
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\q Where is the place of understanding?
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\q
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\v 13 Man does not know its price;
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\q neither is it found in the land of the living.
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\q
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\v 14 The deep waters under the earth say, ‘It is not in me';
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\q the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
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\s5
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\q
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\v 15 It cannot be gotten for gold;
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\q neither can silver be weighed as its price.
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\q
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\v 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,
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\q with precious onyx or sapphire.
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\q
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\v 17 Gold and crystal cannot equal it in worth;
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\q neither can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
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\q
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\v 18 No mention is worth making of coral or jasper;
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\q indeed, the price of wisdom is more than rubies.
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\q
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\v 19 The topaz of Ethiopia does not equal it;
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\q neither can it be valued in terms of pure gold.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 20 From where, then, comes wisdom?
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\q Where is the place of understanding?
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\q
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\v 21 Wisdom is hidden from the eyes of all living things
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\q and is kept hidden from the birds of the heavens.
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\q
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\v 22 Destruction and Death say,
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\q ‘We have heard just a rumor about it with our ears.’
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\b
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\q
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\v 23 God understands the way to it;
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\q he knows its place.
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\q
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\v 24 For he looks to the very ends of the earth
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\q and sees under all the heavens.
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\q
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\v 25 In the past, he made the force of the wind
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\q and parceled out the waters by measure.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 26 He made a decree for the rain
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\q and a way for the lightning of the thunder.
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\q
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\v 27 Then he saw wisdom and announced it;
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\q he established it, indeed, and he examined it.
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\q
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\v 28 To people he said,
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\q ‘See, the fear of the Lord—that is wisdom;
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\q to depart from evil is understanding.’”
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