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The Book of Job, Chapter 28, Verse 1

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[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
King James Version
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].
American Standard Version
Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.
New English Translation
III. Job’s Search for Wisdom(28:1-28)No Known Road to Wisdom“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.
World English Bible
"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
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Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.
3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
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[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
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[There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
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The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
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He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
10
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
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He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light.