Job 28:1-13 ▼

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

9 He putteth his hand vpon the rockes, & ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.

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

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

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

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