Thematic Bible
Job 28:1 (show verse)
There are places were silver is molten, and where gold is tried;
Job 28:2 (show verse)
where iron is digged out of the ground, and stones resolved to metal.
Job 28:3 (show verse)
The darkness shall once come to an end: he can seek out the ground of all things; the stones, the dark, and the shadow of death.
Job 28:4 (show verse)
With the river of water parteth he asunder the strange people, that knoweth no good neighborhead; such as are rude, unmannerly and boisterous.
Job 28:5 (show verse)
He bringeth food out of the earth, and that which is under, consumeth he with fire.
Job 28:6 (show verse)
There is found a place, whose stones are clean Sapphires, and where the clots of the earth are gold.
Job 28:7 (show verse)
There is a way also that the birds know not, that no vulture's eye hath seen;
Job 28:8 (show verse)
wherein the proud and high minded walk not, and where no lion cometh.
Job 28:9 (show verse)
There putteth he his hand upon the stony rocks, and overthroweth the mountains.
Job 28:10 (show verse)
Rivers flow out of the rocks, and look: what is pleasant, his eye seeth it.
Job 28:11 (show verse)
Out of drops bringeth he great floods together, and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.
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Job 28:12 (show verse)
How cometh a man then by wisdom? Where is the place that men find understanding?
Job 28:13 (show verse)
Verily, no man can tell how worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the land of the living.
Job 28:14 (show verse)
"The deep sayeth, 'She is not in me.' The sea sayeth, 'She is not with me.'
Job 28:15 (show verse)
She cannot be gotten for the most fine gold, neither may the price of her be bought with any money.
Job 28:16 (show verse)
No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onyx stones, no Sapphire may be compared unto her.
Job 28:17 (show verse)
No, neither gold nor Crystal, neither sweet odours nor golden plate.
Job 28:18 (show verse)
There is nothing so worthy, or so excellent, as once to be named unto her: for perfect wisdom goeth far beyond them all.
Job 28:19 (show verse)
The Topaz that cometh out of Ethiopia may in no wise be likened unto her: yea, no manner of apparel how pleasant and fair soever it be.
Job 28:20 (show verse)
"From where then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:21 (show verse)
She is hid from the eyes of all men; yea, and from the fouls of the air.
Job 28:22 (show verse)
Destruction and death say, 'We have heard tell of her with our ears.'
Job 28:23 (show verse)
But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place.
Job 28:24 (show verse)
For he holdeth the ends of the world and looketh upon all that is under the heaven.
Job 28:25 (show verse)
When he weighed the winds, and measured the waters;
Job 28:26 (show verse)
When he set the rain in order, and gave the mighty floods a law;
Job 28:27 (show verse)
Then did he see her, then declared he her, prepared her and knew her.
Job 28:28 (show verse)
And unto man he said, 'Behold, to fear the LORD is wisdom: and to forsake evil, is understanding.'"