Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.
New American Standard Bible
Nor is it found in the land of the living.
King James Version
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Holman Bible
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.
Amplified
“Man does not know the value of it;
Nor is it found in the land of the living.
Bible in Basic English
Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.
Darby Translation
Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living.
Julia Smith Translation
And man knew not its estimation, and it shall not be found in the land of the living.
King James 2000
Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A human being does not know its proper value, and it is not found in [the] land of the living.
Modern King James verseion
Man does not know the price of it; nor is it found in the land of the living.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Verily, no man can tell how worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the land of the living.
NET Bible
Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.
New Heart English Bible
Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
The Emphasized Bible
Mortal knoweth not the way thereof, neither can it be found in the land of the living;
Webster
Man knoweth not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.
World English Bible
Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
Youngs Literal Translation
Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.
Themes
divine Call » For worship of God » Wisdom's
Christ » Vine name applied to » Wisdom of
Interlinear
Yada`
Matsa'
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 28:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Discourse On Wisdom
12 But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? 13 Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living. 14 The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me.
Cross References
Job 28:15-19
It cannot be gotten for gold, nor shall silver be weighed for the price of it.
Job 28:21-22
Since it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the birds of the heavens.
Psalm 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
Psalm 52:5
God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalm 119:72
The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
Proverbs 3:14-15
For the gain of it is better than the gain of silver, and the profit of it than fine gold.
Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Proverbs 8:18-19
Riches and honor are with me, durable wealth and righteousness.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I shall not see LORD, [even] LORD in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Isaiah 53:8
In his humiliation his justice was taken away. And as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [was due]?
Matthew 13:44-46
Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man having found, he hid. And from the joy of it, he goes and sells all, as many things as he has, and buys that field.