en_wbms - Job 28 - Ozzuu Bible

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.