Job 28:13 No mortal comprehends its worth; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
No mortal comprehends its worth; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

English Standard Version
Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living.

New American Standard Bible
"Man does not know its value, Nor is it found in the land of the living.

King James Bible
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
No man can know its value, since it cannot be found in the land of the living.

International Standard Version
Mankind doesn't appreciate their value; and you won't find it anywhere on earth.

American Standard Version
Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of them that live in delights.

Darby Bible Translation
Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living.

Young's Literal Translation
Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.

Cross References

Matthew 13:44
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to treasure hid in a field; the which when a man has found, he hides, and for joy thereof goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

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

Psalm 27:13
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

28:12-19 Job here speaks of wisdom and understanding, the knowing and enjoying of God and ourselves. Its worth is infinitely more than all the riches in this world. It is a gift of the Holy Ghost which cannot be bought with money. Let that which is most precious in God's account, be so in ours. Job asks after it as one that truly desired to find it, and despaired of finding it any where but in God; any way but by Divine revelation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. Man can fix no price upon it, as it is nowhere to be found in man's abode (Isa 38:11). Job implies both its valuable worth, and the impossibility of buying it at any price.