Job 28

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

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

³God 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁴The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.

¹⁵Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.