King James VersionJob28

Job

1 Sure­ly there is a vein for the sil­ver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is tak­en out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. 3 He set­teth an end to dark­ness, and searcheth out all per­fec­tion: the stones of dark­ness, and the shad­ow of death. 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. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and un­der it is turned up as it were fire. 6 The stones of it are the place of sap­phires: and it hath dust of gold. 7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: 8 The lion's whelps have not trod­den it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. 9 He put­teth forth his hand upon the rock; he over­tur­neth the moun­tains by the roots. 10 He cut­teth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth ev­ery pre­cious thing. 11 He bindeth the floods from over­flow­ing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. 12 But where shall wis­dom be found? and where is the place of un­der­stand­ing? 13 Man knoweth not the price there­of; nei­ther is it found in the land of the liv­ing. 14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. 15 It can­not be got­ten for gold, nei­ther shall sil­ver be weighed for the price there­of. 16 It can­not be val­ued with the gold of Ophir, with the pre­cious onyx, or the sap­phire. 17 The gold and the crys­tal can­not equal it: and the ex­change of it shall not be for jew­els of fine gold. 18 No men­tion shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wis­dom is above ru­bies. 19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, nei­ther shall it be val­ued with pure gold. 20 Whence then cometh wis­dom? and where is the place of un­der­stand­ing? 21 See­ing it is hid from the eyes of all liv­ing, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 22 De­struc­tion and death say, We have heard the fame there­of with our ears. 23 God un­der­standeth the way there­of, and he knoweth the place there­of. 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth un­der the whole heav­en; 25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the wa­ters by mea­sure. 26 When he made a de­cree for the rain, and a way for the light­ning of the thun­der: 27 Then did he see it, and de­clare it; he pre­pared it, yea, and searched it out. 28 And unto man he said, Be­hold, the fear of the Lord, that is wis­dom; and to de­part from evil is un­der­stand­ing.

King James VersionJob28