Job 28
1 Silver has its fissures where it is first found, and gold has a place where it is melted.
The siluer surely hath his veyne, and ye gold his place, where they take it.
2 Iron is taken from the earth, and ore, unbound by heat, is turned into brass.
Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.
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.
God putteth an end to darkenesse, and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkenesse, and of the shadowe of death.
4 The burning separates a pilgrim people from those who have been forgotten by the feet of the destitute man and from the unapproachable.
The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.
5 The land, where bread appeared in its place, has been destroyed by fire.
Out of the same earth commeth bread, and vnder it, as it were fire is turned vp.
6 Its stones are embedded with sapphires, and its soil, with gold.
The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.
7 The bird does not know its path, nor has the eye of the vulture beheld it.
There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.
8 The sons of merchants have not walked there, nor has the lioness traveled through it.
The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.
9 He has stretched out his hand to the rocks; he has overturned the foundations of the mountains.
He putteth his hand vpon the rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.
10 He has cut rivers through the rocks, and his eye has seen all precious things.
He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
11 The depths of rivers he has also examined, and he has brought hidden things into the light.
He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.
12 But, in truth, where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?
But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
13 Man does not know its price, nor is it found in the land of those who live in sweetness.
Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.
14 The abyss declares, “It is not in me.” And the sea says, “It is not with me.”
The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.
15 The finest gold will not be paid for it, nor will silver be weighed in exchange for it.
Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.
16 It will not be compared with the dyed colors of India, nor with the very costly stone sardonyx, nor with the sapphire.
It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.
17 Neither gold nor crystal will be its equal; neither will vessels of gold be fitted for it.
The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.
18 The exalted and the eminent will not be remembered in comparison with it. Yet wisdom is drawn out of concealment.
No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia will not be equal to it, nor will it be compared to the purest dyes.
The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.
20 So then, where does wisdom begin, and where is the place of understanding?
Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding,
21 It has been hidden from the eyes of all living things, just as the birds of the heavens escape notice.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen?
22 Perdition and death have said, “With our ears, we have heard its fame.”
Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.
23 God understands its way, and he knows its location.
But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24 For he beholds the limits of the world, and he looks upon all things that are under heaven.
For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen,
25 He created a counterweight for the winds, and he suspended the waters to measure them.
To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.
26 At that time, he gave a law to the rain and a path to the resounding storms.
When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,
27 Then he saw and explained it, and he made ready and examined it.
Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it.
28 And he said to man, “Behold the fear of the Lord. Such is wisdom. And to withdraw from evil, this is understanding.”
And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart from euil is vnderstanding.
