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The Book of Job, Chapter 28, Verse 4

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He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
King James Version
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
American Standard Version
He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
New English Translation
Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.
World English Bible
He 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.
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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.
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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.
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But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?
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Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
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The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not with me.