< Job 28 >
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].
for there to/for silver: money exit and place to/for gold to refine
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] melted [out of] the stone.
iron from dust to take: take and stone to pour bronze
3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shades of death.
end to set: put to/for darkness and to/for all limit he/she/it to search stone darkness and shadow
4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: [even the waters] forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.
to break through torrent: river from from with to sojourn [the] to forget from foot to languish from human to shake
5 [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
land: soil from her to come out: produce food: bread and underneath: under her to overturn like fire
6 The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
place sapphire stone her and dust gold to/for him
7 [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vultur's eye hath not seen:
path not to know him bird of prey and not to see him eye falcon
8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
not to tread him son: type of pride not to advance upon him lion
9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
in/on/with flint to send: reach hand: power his to overturn from root mountain: mount
10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
in/on/with rock stream to break up/open and all preciousness to see: see eye his
11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid he bringeth forth to light.
from weeping river to saddle/tie and secret her to come out: send light
12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?
and [the] wisdom from where? to find and where? this place understanding
13 Man knoweth not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.
not to know human valuation her and not to find in/on/with land: country/planet [the] alive
14 The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not with me.
abyss to say not in/on/with me he/she/it and sea to say nothing with me me
15 It cannot be obtained for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price of it.
not to give: give enclosure underneath: instead her and not to weigh silver: money price her
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
not to weigh in/on/with gold Ophir in/on/with onyx precious and sapphire
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold.
not to arrange her gold and glass and exchange her article/utensil pure gold
18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.
coral and crystal not to remember and bag/price wisdom from jewel
19 The topaz of Cush shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
not to arrange her topaz Cush in/on/with gold pure not to weigh
20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?
and [the] wisdom from where? to come (in): come and where? this place understanding
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
and to conceal from eye all alive and from bird [the] heaven to hide
22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.
Abaddon and death to say in/on/with ear our to hear: hear report her
23 God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth its place.
God to understand way: direction her and he/she/it to know [obj] place her
24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven;
for he/she/it to/for end [the] land: country/planet to look underneath: under all [the] heaven to see: see
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
to/for to make: offer to/for spirit: breath weight and water to measure in/on/with measure
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
in/on/with to make he to/for rain statute: decree and way: journey to/for lightning voice: thunder
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
then to see: see her and to recount her to establish: establish her and also to search her
28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.
and to say to/for man look! fear Lord he/she/it wisdom and to turn aside: turn aside from bad: evil understanding