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Job Chapter 28

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Job

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In this chapter the righteous man Job is visited by a wealthy man named Laban who offers him a blessing and a gift of money. Laban also promises to send his servants to see if Job is truly poor, but Job remains faithful, refusing the gifts and trusting God. The chapter highlights the theme of trusting God over human wealth and the danger of pride.

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(1) Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
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Genesis 2:11Genesis 2:12Genesis 23:15Genesis 24:22I Kings 7:48I Kings 7:49I Kings 7:50I Kings 10:21I Chronicles 29:2I Chronicles 29:3I Chronicles 29:4I Chronicles 29:5

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Jeremiah 44:25Exodus 38:17Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:19Numbers 7:25Numbers 7:31

(2) Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
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Genesis 4:22Numbers 31:22Deuteronomy 8:9I Chronicles 22:14

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I Chronicles 29:2Isaiah 60:17I Chronicles 22:14II Chronicles 2:14Isaiah 28:16Daniel 2:35

(3) He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
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Proverbs 2:4Ecclesiastes 1:13Habakkuk 2:13Matthew 6:33Luke 16:8Job 10:21Job 10:22Job 12:22Job 38:16Job 38:17

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Job 10:22Matthew 6:23I John 2:11Jeremiah 13:16I Chronicles 29:2Exodus 10:21

(4) The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
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Genesis 1:6Genesis 9:11Joshua 3:13Joshua 4:23Ezekiel 47:4

(5) As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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Genesis 1:11Genesis 1:12Genesis 1:29Psalms 104:14Psalms 104:15Isaiah 28:25Isaiah 28:26Isaiah 28:27Isaiah 28:28Isaiah 28:29Ezekiel 28:13Ezekiel 28:14

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Proverbs 1:27

(6) The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
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Job 28:16Exodus 24:10Song of Solomon 5:14Isaiah 54:11Revelation 21:19

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10I Kings 5:17

(7) There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
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Job 28:21Job 28:22Job 28:23Job 11:6Job 38:19Job 38:24Romans 11:33

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Luke 6:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34

(8) The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
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I Samuel 9:4Judges 11:29II Samuel 15:23Job 4:10Genesis 49:9Job 4:11

(9) He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
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Nahum 1:4Nahum 1:5Nahum 1:6

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Joshua 11:21Zechariah 6:1

(10) He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
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Proverbs 14:23Proverbs 24:4Habakkuk 3:9

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Luke 6:42Ezekiel 29:4Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34

(11) He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
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Job 26:8Isaiah 37:25Isaiah 44:27Isaiah 45:2Isaiah 45:3I Corinthians 4:5

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Isaiah 30:26Isaiah 60:19Luke 11:36John 12:36Proverbs 30:33Psalms 93:3

(12) But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
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Job 28:20Job 28:28I Kings 3:9Psalms 51:6Proverbs 2:4Proverbs 2:5Proverbs 2:6Proverbs 3:19Ecclesiastes 7:23Ecclesiastes 7:24Ecclesiastes 7:25I Corinthians 1:19

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Deuteronomy 4:6I Kings 4:30Proverbs 4:7Proverbs 10:13Daniel 5:11

(13) Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
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Job 28:15Job 28:16Job 28:17Job 28:18Job 28:19Psalms 19:10Psalms 119:72Proverbs 3:14Proverbs 3:15Proverbs 8:11Proverbs 8:18Proverbs 8:19

(14) The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
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Romans 11:33Romans 11:34

(15) It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
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Job 28:18Proverbs 3:13Proverbs 3:14Proverbs 3:15Proverbs 8:10Proverbs 8:17Proverbs 8:19Proverbs 16:16

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Zechariah 11:12Ezekiel 28:4Genesis 23:16Exodus 38:17Numbers 7:85Ezra 8:26

(16) It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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I Chronicles 29:4Psalms 45:9Isaiah 13:12Exodus 28:20Ezekiel 28:13

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Ezekiel 28:13I Kings 10:11

(17) The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
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Ezekiel 1:22Revelation 4:6Revelation 21:11Revelation 22:1

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Exodus 39:28

(18) No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
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Ezekiel 27:16Matthew 7:6Matthew 13:45Matthew 13:46I Timothy 2:9Revelation 17:4Revelation 18:12Revelation 21:21Proverbs 3:15Proverbs 31:10Lamentations 4:7

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Nehemiah 12:39Proverbs 31:10John 3:31I Kings 4:30

(19) The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
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Exodus 28:17Exodus 39:10Ezekiel 28:13Revelation 21:20

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Titus 1:15

(21) Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
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Psalms 49:3Psalms 49:4Matthew 11:25Matthew 13:17Matthew 13:35I Corinthians 2:7I Corinthians 2:8I Corinthians 2:9I Corinthians 2:10Colossians 2:3

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Numbers 5:13

(22) Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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Job 28:14Psalms 83:10Psalms 83:11Psalms 83:12

(23) God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
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Psalms 19:7Psalms 147:5Proverbs 2:6Proverbs 8:14Matthew 11:27Luke 10:21Luke 10:22Acts 15:18Romans 11:33I Corinthians 1:30Jude 1:25

(24) For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
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II Chronicles 16:9Proverbs 15:3Zechariah 4:10Revelation 5:6

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I Samuel 16:7

(25) To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
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Psalms 135:7Isaiah 40:12

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4I Chronicles 28:15II Corinthians 10:13

(26) When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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Job 36:26Job 36:32Job 38:25Psalms 148:8Jeremiah 14:22Amos 4:7Zechariah 10:1Job 37:3Psalms 29:3Psalms 29:4Psalms 29:5Psalms 29:6

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Joel 2:23Deuteronomy 11:14Amos 4:7Zechariah 10:1

(27) Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
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Psalms 19:1Proverbs 8:22Proverbs 8:23Proverbs 8:24Proverbs 8:25Proverbs 8:26Proverbs 8:27Proverbs 8:28Proverbs 8:29

(28) 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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Deuteronomy 29:29Proverbs 8:4Proverbs 8:5Proverbs 8:26Proverbs 8:27Proverbs 8:28Proverbs 8:29Proverbs 8:30Proverbs 8:31Proverbs 8:32Deuteronomy 4:6Psalms 111:10

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Lamentations 4:15Deuteronomy 4:6I Kings 4:30Proverbs 4:7Proverbs 10:13Daniel 5:11

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