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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 28
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 28,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-28:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.1",
        "text": "Surely there is a mine for silver,  And a place for gold which they refine."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-28:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.2",
        "text": "Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-28:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.3",
        "text": "[Man] setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-28:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.4",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-28:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.5",
        "text": "As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-28:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.6",
        "text": "The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-28:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.7",
        "text": "That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon`s eye seen it:"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-28:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.8",
        "text": "The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-28:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.9",
        "text": "He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-28:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.10",
        "text": "He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-28:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.11",
        "text": "He bindeth the streams that they trickle not;  And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-28:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.12",
        "text": "But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-28:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.13",
        "text": "Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-28:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.14",
        "text": "The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-28:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.15",
        "text": "It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-28:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.16",
        "text": "It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-28:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.17",
        "text": "Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-28:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.18",
        "text": "No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-28:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.19",
        "text": "The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-28:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.20",
        "text": "Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-28:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.21",
        "text": "Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-28:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.22",
        "text": "Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-28:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.23",
        "text": "God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-28:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.24",
        "text": "For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven;"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-28:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.25",
        "text": "To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-28:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.26",
        "text": "When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-28:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.27",
        "text": "Then did he see it, and declare it; He established it, yea, and searched it out."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JOB-28:28",
        "verseRef": "Job.28.28",
        "text": "And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding."
      }
    ]
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