🌪️WEB · Job 28:9
What does Job 28:9 mean?
"He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots."
— Job 28:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
“But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
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