1611 King James Bible
Job 28
- Job 28:1 Surely there is a veine for the siluer, and a place for golde where they fine it.
- Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brasse is molten out of the stone.
- Job 28:3 Hee setteth an ende to darkenesse, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkenesse and the shadow of death.
- Job 28:4 The floud breaketh out from the inhabitant; euen the waters forgotten of the foote: they are dried vp, they are gone away from men.
- Job 28:5 As for the earth, out of it commeth bread: and vnder it, is turned vp as it were fire.
- Job 28:6 The stones of it are the place of Saphires: and it hath dust of golde.
- Job 28:7 There is a path which no foule knoweth, and which the vulturs eye hath not seene.
- Job 28:8 The lyons whelps haue not troden it, nor the fierce lyon passed by it.
- Job 28:9 Hee putteth foorth his hand vpon the rocke; hee ouerturneth the mountaines by the rootes.
- Job 28:10 Hee cutteth out riuers among the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
- Job 28:11 He bindeth the flouds from ouerflowing, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he foorth to light.
- Job 28:12 But where shall wisedome bee found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
- Job 28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the liuing.
- Job 28:14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
- Job 28:15 It cannot be gotten for golde, neither shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.
- Job 28:16 It cannot be valued with the golde of Ophir, with the precious Onix, or the Saphire.
- Job 28:17 The golde and the chrystall cannot equall it: and the exchange of it shall not be for iewels of fine golde.
- Job 28:18 No mention shalbe made of Corall, or of Pearles: for the price of wisedome is aboue Rubies.
- Job 28:19 The Topaze of Ethiopia shall not equall it, neither shall it be valued with pure golde.
- Job 28:20 Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
- Job 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all liuing, and kept close from the foules of the ayre.
- Job 28:22 Destruction and death say, Wee haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.
- Job 28:23 God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
- Job 28:24 For hee looketh to the endes of the earth, and seeth vnder the whole heauen:
- Job 28:25 To make the weight for the windes, and he weigheth the waters by measure.
- Job 28:26 When hee made a decree for the raine, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
- Job 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it, he prepared it, yea and searched it out.
- Job 28:28 And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the LORD, that is wisedome, and to depart from euill, is vnderstanding.