Job 28

1 Silver hath the beginning of his veins; and a place is to gold, in which it is welled together.⋮

2 Iron is taken from the earth, and a stone dissolved, or melted, by heat, is turned into money.⋮

3 God hath set time to darknesses, and he beholdeth the end of all things. Also a strand or stream parteth a stone of darkness, and the shadow of death,⋮

4 from the people going in pilgrim-age; it parteth those hills, which the foot of a needy man forgat, and hills without a way.⋮

5 The earth, whereof bread came forth in his place, is destroyed by fire.⋮

6 The place of a sapphire be the stones thereof, and the clots thereof be gold.⋮

7 A bird knew not the way, and the eye of a vulture beheld it not.⋮

8 The sons of merchants trode not upon that way, and a lioness passed not thereby.⋮

9 God stretched forth his hand to a flint; he destroyed the hills from the roots thereof.⋮

10 He hewed down rivers in stones; and his eye saw all precious thing/s.⋮

11 And he sought out the depths or deepness of floods; and he brought forth hid things into light.⋮

12 But where is wisdom found, and which is the place of understanding?⋮

13 Man knoweth not the price there-of, neither it is found in the land of men living delicately.⋮

14 The depth of waters saith, It is not in me; and the sea speaketh, It is not with me.⋮

15 Gold full clean shall not be given for wisdom, neither silver shall be weighed in the exchanging thereof.⋮

16 It shall not be comparisoned to the dyed colours of India, nor to the most precious stone sardius, neither to the sapphire.⋮

17 Neither gold, neither glass shall be made even worth thereto; and high and far appearing vessels of gold shall not be exchanged for wisdom,⋮

18 neither they shall be had in mind in comparison thereof. Forsooth wisdom is drawn out of privy things;⋮

19 topaz of Ethiopia shall not be made even worth to wisdom, and most precious dyeings shall not be set together in price, or comparisoned, thereto.⋮

20 Therefore whereof cometh wisdom, and which is the place of understanding?⋮

21 It is hid from the eyes of all living men; and also it is hid from the birds of heaven, or of the air.⋮

22 Perdition and death said, With our ears we have heard the fame of wisdom.⋮

23 God understandeth the way there-of, and he knoweth the place thereof.⋮

24 For he beholdeth the ends of the world, and beholdeth all things that be under heaven.⋮

25 He hath made weight to winds, and he hath weighed waters in measure.⋮

26 When he set law to rain, and way to tempests sounding;⋮

27 then he saw wisdom, and told it out, and he made it ready, and sought it out.⋮

28 And he said to man, Lo! the dread of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to go away from evil, is understanding.⋮