Today is the 28th day of August. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today.

We stepped into a brand new week yesterday and so here we go. We gotta live it now.

And what a gift. What a gift that we can.

And one of the ways that we find out how to do that is to come around the global campfire every day and orient ourselves to God through the Scriptures.

And so we're in the right place. And we're here at the right time. And so let's do the right thing and take the next step forward.

Our next step leads us back to the territory that we've been moving through, which is the book of Job.

And we will arrive at the conclusion of Job not too many days hence, but we're not there yet.

Job and his friends are duking it out about Job's innocence.

And we pick up the story today with the Job, Chapter 28, 29 and 30.

There is a place where silver is mined and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the ground and rocks are melted for their copper.

Humans bring an end to darkness there and search to the limit of the gloomy pitch black rock.

They open up a mineshaft far from civilization where no one has set foot.

In this shaft, men dangle and swing back and forth above the ground food crows but beneath it the food decays as if it were burned by fire.

At places stones are sapphire. Its dust contains gold. No bird of prey knows the way to it.

No hawks eye has ever seen it. No proud beast has ever walked on it. No ferocious lion has ever passed over it.

Humans exert their power on the flinty rocks and overturned mountains at their base. They cut out mineshafts in the rocks.

Their eyes see every precious thing. They explore the sources of rivers so that they bring hidden treasures to light.

Where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding live?

No mortal knows where it is. It cannot be found in this world of the living.

The deep ocean says, it isn't in me. The sea says, it isn't with me.

You cannot obtain it with solid gold or buy it for any amount of silver. It can't be bought with the gold from Ophir or with precious onyx or sapphire.

Neither gold nor glass can equal its value nor can gold ornaments, jewels or crystal be exchanged for it.

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