Iyov, starting at chapter 28
{28:1} "Surely there is a mine for silver,
And a place for gold which they refine.
{28:2} Iron is taken out of the [1>]eretz[<1],
And copper is smelted out of the ore.
{28:3} Man sets an end to darkness,
And searches out, to the furthest bound,
The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
{28:4} 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.
{28:5} As for the [2>]eretz[<2], out of it comes bread;
Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
{28:6} Sapphires come from its rocks.
It has dust of gold.
{28:7} That path no bird of prey knows,
Neither has the falcon's eye seen it.
{28:8} The proud animals have not trodden it,
Nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
{28:9} He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock,
And he overturns the mountains by the roots.
{28:10} He cuts out channels among the rocks.
His eye sees every precious thing.
{28:11} He binds the streams that they don't trickle;
The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
{28:12} "But where shall wisdom be found?
Where is the place of understanding?
{28:13} Man doesn't know its price;
Neither is it found in the land of the living.
{28:14} The deep says, 'It isn't in me.'
The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'
{28:15} It can't be gotten for gold,
Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
{28:16} It can't be valued with the gold of Ofir,
With the precious [3>]shoham[<3], or the sappir.
{28:17} Gold and zekukeet can't equal it,
Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
{28:18} No mention shall be made of [4>]ra`mah[<4] or of
[5>]gabeesh[<5]:
Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
{28:19} The [6>]pitdah[<6] of Kush shall not equal it,
Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
{28:20} Whence then comes wisdom?
Where is the place of understanding?
{28:21} Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living,
And kept close from the birds of the sky.
{28:22} Destruction and Death say,
'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
{28:23} "God understands its way,
And he knows its place.
{28:24} For he looks to the ends of the [7>]eretz[<7],
And sees under the whole sky.
{28:25} He establishes the force of the wind;
Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
{28:26} When he made a decree for the rain,
And a way for the lightning of the thunder;
{28:27} Then did he see it, and declare it.
He established it, yes, and searched it out.
{28:28} To man he said,
'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom.
To depart from evil is understanding.'"
{29:1} Iyov again took up his parable, and said,
{29:2} "Oh that I were as in the months of old,
As in the days when God watched over me;
{29:3} When his lamp shone on my head,
And by his light I walked through darkness;
{29:4} As I was in the ripeness of my days,
When the friendship of God was in my tent;
{29:5} When [1>]Shaddai[<1] was yet with me,
And my children were around me;
{29:6} When my steps were washed with butter,
And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!
{29:7} When I went forth to the city gate,
When I prepared my seat in the street,
{29:8} The young men saw me and hid themselves,
The aged rose up and stood;
{29:9} The princes refrained from talking,
And laid their hand on their mouth;
{29:10} The voice of the nobles was hushed,
And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
{29:11} For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;
And when the eye saw me, it commended me:
{29:12} Because I delivered the poor who cried,
And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.
{29:13} The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me,
And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
{29:14} I put on righteousness, and it clothed me.
My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
{29:15} I was eyes to the blind,
And feet to the lame.
{29:16} I was a father to the needy.
The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
{29:17} I broke the jaws of the unrighteous,
And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
{29:18} Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house,
I shall number my days as the sand.
{29:19} My root is spread out to the waters,
The dew lies all night on my branch;
{29:20} My glory is fresh in me,
My bow is renewed in my hand.'
{29:21} "Men listened to me, waited,
And kept silence for my counsel.
{29:22} After my words they didn't speak again;
My speech fell on them.
{29:23} They waited for me as for the rain.
Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
{29:24} I smiled on them when they had no confidence.
They didn't reject the light of my face.
{29:25} I chose out their way, and sat as chief.
I lived as a king in the army,
As one who comforts the mourners.
{30:1} "But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision,
Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
{30:2} Of what use is the strength of their hands to me,
Men in whom ripe age has perished?
{30:3} They are gaunt from lack and famine.
They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
{30:4} They pluck [1>]mallukh[<1] by the bushes.
The roots of the broom are their food.
{30:5} They are driven forth from the midst of men;
They cry after them as after a thief;
{30:6} So that they dwell in frightful valleys,
And in holes of the [2>]eretz[<2] and of the rocks.
{30:7} Among the bushes they bray;
And under the nettles they are gathered together.
{30:8} They are children of fools, yes, children of base men.
They were flogged out of the land.
{30:9} "Now I have become their song.
Yes, I am a byword to them.
{30:10} They abhor me, they stand aloof from me,
And don't hesitate to spit in my face.
{30:11} For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me;
And they have thrown off restraint before me.
{30:12} On my right hand rise the rabble.
They thrust aside my feet,
They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
{30:13} They mar my path,
They set forward my calamity,
Without anyone's help.
{30:14} As through a wide breach they come,
In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.
{30:15} Terrors are turned on me.
They chase my honor as the wind.
My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
{30:16} "Now my soul is poured out within me.
Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
{30:17} In the night season my bones are pierced in me,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
{30:18} By great force is my garment disfigured.
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
{30:19} He has cast me into the mire.
I have become like dust and ashes.
{30:20} I cry to you, and you do not answer me.
I stand up, and you gaze at me.
{30:21} You have turned to be cruel to me.
With the might of your hand you persecute me.
{30:22} You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it.
You dissolve me in the storm.
{30:23} For I know that you will bring me to death,
To the house appointed for all living.
{30:24} "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall?
Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
{30:25} Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble?
Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
{30:26} When I looked for good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, there came darkness.
{30:27} My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest.
Days of affliction have come on me.
{30:28} I go mourning without the sun.
I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
{30:29} I am a brother to jackals,
And a companion to ostriches.
{30:30} My skin grows black and peels from me.
My bones are burned with heat.
{30:31} Therefore is my harp turned to mourning,
And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
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Footnotes:
[1] {28:2} earth
[2] {28:5} earth
[3] {28:16} onyx
[4] {28:18} coral
[5] {28:18} crystal
[6] {28:19} topaz
[7] {28:24} earth
[1] {29:5} the Almighty
[1] {30:4} salt herbs
[2] {30:6} earth
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