Job 28
1 “Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
for there to/for silver: money exit and place to/for gold to refine
2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
iron from dust to take: take and stone to pour bronze
3 Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
end to set: put to/for darkness and to/for all limit he/she/it to search stone darkness and shadow
4 Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
to break through torrent: river from from with to sojourn [the] to forget from foot to languish from human to shake
5 Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
land: soil from her to come out: produce food: bread and underneath: under her to overturn like fire
6 Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
place sapphire stone her and dust gold to/for him
7 No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
path not to know him bird of prey and not to see him eye falcon
8 Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
not to tread him son: type of pride not to advance upon him lion
9 The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.
in/on/with flint to send: reach hand: power his to overturn from root mountain: mount
10 He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.
in/on/with rock stream to break up/open and all preciousness to see: see eye his
11 He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
from weeping river to saddle/tie and secret her to come out: send light
12 But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
and [the] wisdom from where? to find and where? this place understanding
13 No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
not to know human valuation her and not to find in/on/with land: country/planet [the] alive
14 The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’
abyss to say not in/on/with me he/she/it and sea to say nothing with me me
15 It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
not to give: give enclosure underneath: instead her and not to weigh silver: money price her
16 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
not to weigh in/on/with gold Ophir in/on/with onyx precious and sapphire
17 Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it.
not to arrange her gold and glass and exchange her article/utensil pure gold
18 Coral and quartz are unworthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
coral and crystal not to remember and bag/price wisdom from jewel
19 Topaz from Cush cannot compare to it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
not to arrange her topaz Ethiopia in/on/with gold pure not to weigh
20 From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
and [the] wisdom from where? to come (in): come and where? this place understanding
21 It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
and to conceal from eye all alive and from bird [the] heaven to hide
22 Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
Abaddon and death to say in/on/with ear our to hear: hear report her
23 But God understands its way, and He knows its place.
God to understand way: direction her and he/she/it to know [obj] place her
24 For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
for he/she/it to/for end [the] land: country/planet to look underneath: under all [the] heaven to see: see
25 When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
to/for to make: offer to/for spirit: breath weight and water to measure in/on/with measure
26 when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
in/on/with to make he to/for rain statute: decree and way: journey to/for lightning voice: thunder
27 then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.
then to see: see her and to recount her to establish: establish her and also to search her
28 And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
and to say to/for man look! fear Lord he/she/it wisdom and to turn aside: turn aside from bad: evil understanding
