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Job 28 Catholic Public Domain Version

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1 Silver has its fissures where it is first found, and gold has a place where it is melted.
1 CIERTAMENTE la plata tiene sus veneros, y el oro lugar [donde] se forma.
1 “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
2 Iron is taken from the earth, and ore, unbound by heat, is turned into brass.
2 El hierro se saca del polvo, y de la piedra es fundido el metal.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
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.
3 A las tinieblas puso término, y examina todo á la perfección, las piedras [que hay] en la oscuridad y en la sombra de muerte.
3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
4 The burning separates a pilgrim people from those who have been forgotten by the feet of the destitute man and from the unapproachable.
4 Brota el torrente de junto al morador, [aguas] que el pie había olvidado: sécanse luego, vanse del hombre.
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.
5 The land, where bread appeared in its place, has been destroyed by fire.
5 De la tierra nace el pan, y debajo de ella estará como convertida en fuego.
5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
6 Its stones are embedded with sapphires, and its soil, with gold.
6 Lugar hay cuyas piedras son zafiro, y sus polvos de oro.
6 Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
7 The bird does not know its path, nor has the eye of the vulture beheld it.
7 Senda que nunca la conoció ave, ni ojo de buitre la vió:
7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
8 The sons of merchants have not walked there, nor has the lioness traveled through it.
8 Nunca la pisaron animales fieros, ni león pasó por ella.
8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
9 He has stretched out his hand to the rocks; he has overturned the foundations of the mountains.
9 En el pedernal puso su mano, y trastornó los montes de raíz.
9 He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
10 He has cut rivers through the rocks, and his eye has seen all precious things.
10 De los peñascos cortó ríos, y sus ojos vieron todo lo preciado.
10 He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
11 The depths of rivers he has also examined, and he has brought hidden things into the light.
11 Detuvo los ríos en su nacimiento, é hizo salir á luz lo escondido.
11 He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
12 But, in truth, where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?
12 Empero ¿dónde se hallará la sabiduría? ¿y dónde está el lugar de la prudencia?
12 “But where will wisdom be found? 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.
13 No conoce su valor el hombre, ni se halla en la tierra de los vivientes.
13 Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.
14 The abyss declares, “It is not in me.” And the sea says, “It is not with me.”
14 El abismo dice: No está en mí: y la mar dijo: Ni conmigo.
14 The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’
15 The finest gold will not be paid for it, nor will silver be weighed in exchange for it.
15 No se dará por oro, ni su precio será á peso de plata.
15 It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.
16 It will not be compared with the dyed colors of India, nor with the very costly stone sardonyx, nor with the sapphire.
16 No puede ser apreciada con oro de Ophir, ni con onique precioso, ni con zafiro.
16 It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 Neither gold nor crystal will be its equal; neither will vessels of gold be fitted for it.
17 El oro no se le igualará, ni el diamante; ni se trocará por vaso de oro fino.
17 Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
18 The exalted and the eminent will not be remembered in comparison with it. Yet wisdom is drawn out of concealment.
18 De coral ni de perlas no se hará mención: la sabiduría es mejor que piedras preciosas.
18 No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia will not be equal to it, nor will it be compared to the purest dyes.
19 No se igualará con ella esmeralda de Ethiopía; no se podrá apreciar con oro fino.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it. It won’t be valued with pure gold.
20 So then, where does wisdom begin, and where is the place of understanding?
20 ¿De dónde pues vendrá la sabiduría? ¿y dónde está el lugar de la inteligencia?
20 Where then does wisdom come from? 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.
21 Porque encubierta está á los ojos de todo viviente, y á toda ave del cielo es oculta.
21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
22 Perdition and death have said, “With our ears, we have heard its fame.”
22 El infierno y la muerte dijeron: Su fama hemos oído con nuestros oídos.
22 Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
23 God understands its way, and he knows its location.
23 Dios entiende el camino de ella, y él conoce su lugar.
23 “God understands its way, and he knows its place.
24 For he beholds the limits of the world, and he looks upon all things that are under heaven.
24 Porque él mira hasta los fines de la tierra, y ve debajo de todo el cielo.
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.
25 He created a counterweight for the winds, and he suspended the waters to measure them.
25 Al dar peso al viento, y poner las aguas por medida;
25 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
26 At that time, he gave a law to the rain and a path to the resounding storms.
26 Cuando él hizo ley á la lluvia, y camino al relámpago de los truenos;
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
27 Then he saw and explained it, and he made ready and examined it.
27 Entonces la veía él, y la manifestaba; preparóla y descubrióla también.
27 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.
28 And he said to man, “Behold the fear of the Lord. Such is wisdom. And to withdraw from evil, this is understanding.”
28 Y dijo al hombre: He aquí que el temor del Señor es la sabiduría, y el apartarse del mal la inteligencia.
28 To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
Cross references (26)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 1 Peter 1:7; Malachi 3:2–3; Proverbs 17:3; Isaiah 48:10; Proverbs 27:21
  2. 2 Deuteronomy 8:9; Genesis 4:22; Numbers 31:22; 1 Chronicles 22:14
  3. 3 Ecclesiastes 1:13; Job 38:16–17; Proverbs 2:4; Job 12:22; Matthew 6:33
  4. 5 Isaiah 28:25–29; Psalm 104:14–15; Genesis 1:11–12; Genesis 1:29; Ezekiel 28:13–14
  5. 6 Job 28:16; Exodus 24:10; Song of Songs 5:14; Revelation 21:19; Isaiah 54:11
  6. 7 Job 11:6; Job 28:21–23; Romans 11:33; Job 38:24; Job 38:19
  7. 9 Nahum 1:4–6
  8. 10 Proverbs 24:4; Proverbs 14:23; Habakkuk 3:9
  9. 11 1 Corinthians 4:5; Isaiah 45:2–3; Job 26:8; Isaiah 37:25; Isaiah 44:27
  10. 12 Proverbs 2:4–6; Job 28:20; James 1:5; Proverbs 3:19; Colossians 2:3
  11. 13 Proverbs 8:11; Proverbs 8:18–19; Proverbs 3:14–15; Proverbs 23:23; Matthew 13:44–46
  12. 14 Romans 11:33–34
  13. 15 Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 8:19; Proverbs 3:13–15; Proverbs 8:10–11; Proverbs 8:17
  14. 16 Psalm 45:9; Isaiah 13:12; Ezekiel 28:13; Exodus 28:20; 1 Chronicles 29:4
  15. 17 Revelation 22:1; Proverbs 16:16; Revelation 4:6; Ezekiel 1:22; Revelation 21:11
  16. 18 Proverbs 3:15; Proverbs 31:10; Ezekiel 27:16; Lamentations 4:7; Matthew 7:6
  17. 19 Exodus 39:10; Proverbs 8:19; Exodus 28:17; Ezekiel 28:13; Revelation 21:20
  18. 20 James 1:5; Job 28:12; Job 28:28; James 1:17; Job 28:23
  19. 21 Psalm 49:3–4; Matthew 11:25; Colossians 2:3; 1 Corinthians 2:7–10; Matthew 13:35
  20. 22 Job 26:6; Psalm 83:10–12; Job 28:14
  21. 23 Proverbs 8:22–31; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Jude 25; Romans 11:33; Proverbs 2:6
  22. 24 Proverbs 15:3; Zechariah 4:10; Revelation 5:6; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Psalm 33:13–14
  23. 25 Psalm 135:7; Isaiah 40:12; Job 12:15
  24. 26 Job 38:25; Job 37:3; Zechariah 10:1; Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 29:3–10
  25. 27 Psalm 19:1; Proverbs 8:22–29
  26. 28 Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 9:10; Proverbs 3:7; Ecclesiastes 12:13

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What the Fathers said

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  1. Quotes verse 28:28 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book VIII)

    For Thou hast said unto man, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;" and desire not to seem wise, because, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." But I had now found the goodly pearl, which, selling all that I had, I ought to have bought; and I hesitated.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)