Job 28:13

American Standard Version (1901)

Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

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  • Job 28:15-19 : 15 It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 17 Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies. 19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
  • Job 28:21-22 : 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens. 22 Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {{Selah
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me Than thousands of gold and silver.
  • Prov 3:14-15 : 14 For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, And the profit thereof than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: And none of the things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her.
  • Prov 8:11 : 11 For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.
  • Prov 8:18-19 : 18 Riches and honor are with me; [Yea], durable wealth and righteousness. 19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
  • Eccl 8:16-17 : 16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes), [ 17 then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Isa 53:8 : 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] 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] ?
  • Matt 13:44-46 : 44 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a merchant seeking goodly pearls: 46 and having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

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    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 28:14-21
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    85%

    14The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me.

    15It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

    16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

    17Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

    18No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

    19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

    20Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

    21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.

  • Eccl 8:17
    76%

    17then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 7:24
    75%

    24That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?

  • Eccl 8:7
    74%

    7for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

  • Prov 3:13-14
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    74%

    13Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that getteth understanding.

    14For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, And the profit thereof than fine gold.

  • Prov 8:11
    74%

    11For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.

  • Job 3:21
    73%

    21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • Job 32:13
    73%

    13Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:

  • Prov 17:16
    72%

    16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?

  • Prov 30:3
    72%

    3And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

    9What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

  • Job 11:7-8
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    72%

    7Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

    8It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; What canst thou know?

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    7That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon's eye seen it:

  • Job 32:9
    72%

    9It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.

  • Job 20:4
    72%

    4Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

  • Job 28:23
    72%

    23God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof.

  • Job 36:19
    71%

    19Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength?

  • Eccl 6:12
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    12For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Prov 2:4
    71%

    4If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

  • Eccl 9:5
    71%

    5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Job 36:26
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    26Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.

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    3Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

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    6A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this:

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    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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    70%

    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

    20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?

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    10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

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    14So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward, And thy hope shall not be cut off.

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    21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

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    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

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    15There is gold, and abundance of rubies; But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

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    69%

    21Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

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    69%

    16How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.

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    27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.