28Job 28

CHAP. XXVIII. / 1 There is a knowledge of naturall things. 12 But wisedome is an excellent gift of God.

1Surely there is a veine for the siluer, and a place for golde where they fine it.Select Job 28:1

2Iron is taken out of the earth, and brasse is molten out of the stone.Select Job 28:2

3Hee setteth an ende to darkenesse, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkenesse and the shadow of death.Select Job 28:3

4The floud breaketh out from the inhabitant; euen the waters forgotten of the foote: they are dried vp, they are gone away from men.Select Job 28:4

5As for the earth, out of it commeth bread: and vnder it, is turned vp as it were fire.Select Job 28:5

6The stones of it are the place of Saphires: and it hath dust of golde.Select Job 28:6

7There is a path which no foule knoweth, and which the vulturs eye hath not seene.Select Job 28:7

8The lyons whelps haue not troden it, nor the fierce lyon passed by it.Select Job 28:8

9Hee putteth foorth his hand vpon the rocke; hee ouerturneth the mountaines by the rootes.Select Job 28:9

10Hee cutteth out riuers among the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.Select Job 28:10

11He bindeth the flouds from ouerflowing, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he foorth to light.Select Job 28:11

12But where shall wisedome bee found? And where is the place of vnderstanding?Select Job 28:12

13Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the liuing.Select Job 28:13

14The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.Select Job 28:14

15It cannot be gotten for golde, neither shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.Select Job 28:15

16It cannot be valued with the golde of Ophir, with the precious Onix, or the Saphire.Select Job 28:16

17The golde and the chrystall cannot equall it: and the exchange of it shall not be for iewels of fine golde.Select Job 28:17

18No mention shalbe made of Corall, or of Pearles: for the price of wisedome is aboue Rubies.Select Job 28:18

19The Topaze of Ethiopia shall not equall it, neither shall it be valued with pure golde.Select Job 28:19

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

21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all liuing, and kept close from the foules of the ayre.Select Job 28:21

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

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

24For hee looketh to the endes of the earth, and seeth vnder the whole heauen:Select Job 28:24

25To make the weight for the windes, and he weigheth the waters by measure.Select Job 28:25

26When hee made a decree for the raine, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:Select Job 28:26

27Then did he see it, and declare it, he prepared it, yea and searched it out.Select Job 28:27

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