Geneva1599 - Job - 28

28:1  The siluer surely hath his veyne, and ye gold his place, where they take it.

28:2  Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.

28:3  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.

28:4  The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.

28:5  Out of the same earth commeth bread, and vnder it, as it were fire is turned vp.

28:6  The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.

28:7  There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.

28:8  The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.

28:9  He putteth his hand vpon the rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.

28:10  He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.

28:11  He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.

28:12  But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

28:13  Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.

28:14  The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.

28:15  Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.

28:16  It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.

28:17  The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.

28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles.

28:19  The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.

28:20  Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding,

28:21  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen?

28:22  Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.

28:23  But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

28:24  For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen,

28:25  To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.

28:26  When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,

28:27  Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it.

28:28  And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart from euil is vnderstanding.