Job 28:1-13 ▼

1 There is a place wher siluer is brought out of, and where golde is tryed,

2 Where yron is digged out of the grounde, & stones resolued to metall.

3 The darkenesse shall once come to an ende: he can seke out the grounde of all thinges, the stones, the darke, and the shadowe of death.

4 He causeth the fluddes to breake out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, beyng hygher then man, are gone away.

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

6 The stones of it are a place of Saphires, and the dust of it is golde.

7 There is a way that the birdes knowe not, that no vultures eye hath seene:

8 Wherin the lions whelpes walke not, and where no lion commeth.

9 There putteth he his hande vpon the stonie rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaynes by the rootes.

10 Riuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seeth it.

11 He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.

12 Where then is wysdome founde? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

13 Ueryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue.