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# Job 28

Job 28 is chapter 28 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 28 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Man's industry searcheth out many things: true wisdom is taught by God alone.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 28 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Silver has its fissures where it is first found, and gold has a place where it is melted.
2. Iron is taken from the earth, and ore, unbound by heat, is turned into brass.
3. He has established a time for darkness, and he has settled on an end for all things, as well as for the stone that is in the gloom and shadow of death.
4. The burning separates a pilgrim people from those who have been forgotten by the feet of the destitute man and from the unapproachable.
5. The land, where bread appeared in its place, has been destroyed by fire.
6. Its stones are embedded with sapphires, and its soil, with gold.
7. The bird does not know its path, nor has the eye of the vulture beheld it.
8. The sons of merchants have not walked there, nor has the lioness traveled through it.
9. He has stretched out his hand to the rocks; he has overturned the foundations of the mountains.
10. He has cut rivers through the rocks, and his eye has seen all precious things.
11. The depths of rivers he has also examined, and he has brought hidden things into the light.
12. But, in truth, where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?
13. Man does not know its price, nor is it found in the land of those who live in sweetness.
14. The abyss declares, “It is not in me.” And the sea says, “It is not with me.”
15. The finest gold will not be paid for it, nor will silver be weighed in exchange for it.
16. It will not be compared with the dyed colors of India, nor with the very costly stone sardonyx, nor with the sapphire.
17. Neither gold nor crystal will be its equal; neither will vessels of gold be fitted for it.
18. The exalted and the eminent will not be remembered in comparison with it. Yet wisdom is drawn out of concealment.
19. The topaz of Ethiopia will not be equal to it, nor will it be compared to the purest dyes.
20. So then, where does wisdom begin, and where is the place of understanding?
21. It has been hidden from the eyes of all living things, just as the birds of the heavens escape notice.
22. Perdition and death have said, “With our ears, we have heard its fame.”
23. God understands its way, and he knows its location.
24. For he beholds the limits of the world, and he looks upon all things that are under heaven.
25. He created a counterweight for the winds, and he suspended the waters to measure them.
26. At that time, he gave a law to the rain and a path to the resounding storms.
27. Then he saw and explained it, and he made ready and examined it.
28. And he said to man, “Behold the fear of the Lord. Such is wisdom. And to withdraw from evil, this is understanding.”

## Job 28 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Habet argentum venarum suarum principia, et auro locus est in quo conflatur.
2. Ferrum de terra tollitur, et lapis solutus calore in æs vertitur.
3. Tempus posuit tenebris, et universorum finem ipse considerat: lapidem quoque caliginis et umbram mortis.
4. Dividit torrens a populo peregrinante eos quos oblitus est pes egentis hominis, et invios.
5. Terra de qua oriebatur panis, in loco suo igni subversa est.
6. Locus sapphiri lapides ejus, et glebæ illius aurum.
7. Semitam ignoravit avis, nec intuitus est eam oculus vulturis.
8. Non calcaverunt eam filii institorum, nec pertransivit per eam leæna.
9. Ad silicem extendit manum suam: subvertit a radicibus montes.
10. In petris rivos excidit, et omne pretiosum vidit oculus ejus.
11. Profunda quoque fluviorum scrutatus est, et abscondita in lucem produxit.
12. Sapientia vero ubi invenitur? et quis est locus intelligentiæ?
13. Nescit homo pretium ejus, nec invenitur in terra suaviter viventium.
14. Abyssus dicit: Non est in me, et mare loquitur: Non est mecum.
15. Non dabitur aurum obrizum pro ea, nec appendetur argentum in commutatione ejus.
16. Non conferetur tinctis Indiæ coloribus, nec lapidi sardonycho pretiosissimo vel sapphiro.
17. Non adæquabitur ei aurum vel vitrum, nec commutabuntur pro ea vasa auri.
18. Excelsa et eminentia non memorabuntur comparatione ejus: trahitur autem sapientia de occultis.
19. Non adæquabitur ei topazius de Æthiopia, nec tincturæ mundissimæ componetur.
20. Unde ergo sapientia venit? et quis est locus intelligentiæ?
21. Abscondita est ab oculis omnium viventium: volucres quoque cæli latet.
22. Perditio et mors dixerunt: Auribus nostris audivimus famam ejus.
23. Deus intelligit viam ejus, et ipse novit locum illius.
24. Ipse enim fines mundi intuetur, et omnia quæ sub cælo sunt respicit.
25. Qui fecit ventis pondus, et aquas appendit in mensura.
26. Quando ponebat pluviis legem, et viam procellis sonantibus:
27. tunc vidit illam et enarravit, et præparavit, et investigavit.
28. Et dixit homini: Ecce timor Domini, ipsa est sapientia; et recedere a malo, intelligentia.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).