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The Book of Job, Chapter 28, Verse 5

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The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
King James Version
[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
American Standard Version
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
New English Translation
The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;
World English Bible
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by 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.
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It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price thereof.