Job 28:13

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Ueryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue.

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  • Job 28:15-19 : 15 She can not be gotten for golde, neither may the price of her be bought with any siluer. 16 No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphires may be valued with her. 17 No, neither golde nor christall shall be equall vnto it, nor her exchaunge shalbe for the plate of fine golde. 18 No mention shalbe made of Corall nor of the Gabis: for wisdome is more precious then pearles. 19 The Topas of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure golde.
  • Job 28:21-22 : 21 She is hid from the eyes of all men liuing, yea & from the foules of the ayre. 22 Destruction and death say, We haue hearde the fame therof with our eares.
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 They are more to be desired then golde, yea then much fine golde: they are also sweeter then hony and the hony combe.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 Therfore the Lord wyll destroy thee for euer: he wyll take thee and plucke thee out of thy dwelling, and roote thee out of the lande of the liuing. Selah.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The lawe of thy mouth is dearer vnto me: then thousandes of golde & siluer.
  • Prov 3:14-15 : 14 For the marchaundise of it, is better then the marchaundise of siluer, and the gayne therof is better then golde. 15 She is more worth then pretious stones: and all the thinges that thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her.
  • Prov 8:11 : 11 For wysdome is more worth then pretious stones, yea all thinges that thou canst desire, may not be compared vnto it.
  • Prov 8:18-19 : 18 Riches and honour are with me, yea durable riches and righteousnes. 19 My fruite is better then golde and pretious stones, and mine encrease more worth then fine siluer.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 To haue wisdome in possession, is better then to haue golde: and to get vnderstandyng, is rather to be chosen then to haue siluer.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Purchase trueth, wysdome, nurture, and vnderstanding, and sell them not.
  • Eccl 8:16-17 : 16 And so I applied my minde to learne wysdome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde, and that of suche a fashion, that I suffred not mine eyes to sleepe neither day nor night. 17 I vnderstoode of all the workes of God, but it is not possible for a man to attayne vnto the workes that are done vnder the sunne: and though he bestowe his labour to seeke them out, yet can he not reach vnto them: yea though a wyse man would vndertake to know them, yet shall he not finde them.
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I spake within my selfe, I wyll neuer visite the Lorde the Lorde I say in this lyfe: I wyll neuer see man among the dwellers of the worlde.
  • Isa 53:8 : 8 From the prison and iudgement was he taken, and his generation who can declare? for he was cut of from the grounde of the lyuyng, which punishment dyd go vpon hym for the transgression of my people.
  • Matt 13:44-46 : 44 Agayne, the kyngdome of heauen is lyke vnto treasure hyd in the fielde: the which a man hath founde, and hyd, and for ioy therof, goeth and selleth all that he hath, and byeth the fielde. 45 Agayne, the kyngdome of heauen is lyke vnto a marchaunt man, seekyng goodly pearles. 46 Which, when he founde one precious pearle, went and solde all that he had, and bought it.

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    12 Where then is wysdome founde? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

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    14 The deepe sayth, She is not in me: the sea sayth, She is not with me.

    15 She can not be gotten for golde, neither may the price of her be bought with any siluer.

    16 No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphires may be valued with her.

    17 No, neither golde nor christall shall be equall vnto it, nor her exchaunge shalbe for the plate of fine golde.

    18 No mention shalbe made of Corall nor of the Gabis: for wisdome is more precious then pearles.

    19 The Topas of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure golde.

    20 Whence then commeth wysdome? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

    21 She is hid from the eyes of all men liuing, yea & from the foules of the ayre.

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17 I vnderstoode of all the workes of God, but it is not possible for a man to attayne vnto the workes that are done vnder the sunne: and though he bestowe his labour to seeke them out, yet can he not reach vnto them: yea though a wyse man would vndertake to know them, yet shall he not finde them.

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    24 yea and so deepe, that I might not reache vnto her.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7 And why? a man knoweth not what is for to come: for who can tell hym when it shalbe?

  • Prov 3:13-14
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    13 Well is hym that findeth wysdome, and getteth vnderstandyng:

    14 For the marchaundise of it, is better then the marchaundise of siluer, and the gayne therof is better then golde.

  • Prov 8:11
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    11 For wysdome is more worth then pretious stones, yea all thinges that thou canst desire, may not be compared vnto it.

  • Job 3:21
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    21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures:

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    13 Lest ye should say: We haue found out wisdome, God shall cast hym downe, and no man.

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    16 Whereto hath a foole treasure in his hande to bye wisdome, seeing he hath no minde therto?

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    3 I neuer learned wisdome, nor had knowledge of holy thynges.

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    8 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God? and doest thou restraine wysdome to thee?

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  • Job 11:7-8
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    7 Art thou able to finde out the secretes of God? Or wilt thou attayne to the perfectnesse of the almightie?

    8 It is hier then heauen, what art thou able to do? deeper then the hel, how wilt thou then knowe it?

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    7 There is a way that the birdes knowe not, that no vultures eye hath seene:

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    9 Great men are not alway wyse, neither doth euery aged man vnderstande the thing that is lawfull:

  • Job 20:4
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    4 Knowest thou not this of olde, and since God plaged man vpon earth,

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    23 But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place.

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    19 Thinkest thou that he wyll regarde thy riches? he shall not care for golde, nor for all them that excell in strength.

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    12 For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?

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    26 Beholde, so great is God that he passeth our knowledge, neither can the number of his yeres be searched out.

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    20 That thou shouldest receaue it in the boundes thereof, and know the pathes to their houses.

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    21 Is not their royaltie gone away with them? they shall dye truely, and not in wysdome.

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    15 The croked can not be made straight, nor the imperfection of thynges can be numbred.

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    28 And vnto man he sayd: To feare the Lorde is wysdome, and to forsake euyll is vnderstanding.

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    6 The knowledge that thou hast of me is marueylous: it is so high that I can not attayne vnto it.

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    15 There is golde, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lippes of knowledge are a precious iewell.

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    21 Who knoweth the spirite of man that goeth vpwarde, & the breath of the beast that goeth downe to the earth?

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    16 To haue wisdome in possession, is better then to haue golde: and to get vnderstandyng, is rather to be chosen then to haue siluer.

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