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The Book of Job, Chapter 28, Verse 7

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The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
King James Version
[There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
American Standard Version
That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon's eye seen it:
New English Translation
a hidden path no bird of prey knows– no falcon’s eye has spotted it.
World English Bible
That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.
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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?
13
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14
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.
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It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold.