Job 28:13

World English Bible (2000)

Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

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  • Job 28:15-19 : 15 It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price. 16 It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 17 Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, 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 hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky. 22 Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD
  • Prov 3:14-15 : 14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
  • Prov 8:11 : 11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.
  • Prov 8:18-19 : 18 With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity. 19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
  • Eccl 8:16-17 : 16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes), 17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Isa 53:8 : 8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
  • Matt 13:44-46 : 44 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field. 45 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, 46 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 28:12
    86%

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

  • Job 28:14-21
    8 verses
    85%

    14 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

    15 It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

    16 It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

    17 Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

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

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

    20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

    21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

  • Eccl 8:17
    76%

    17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

  • Eccl 7:24
    75%

    24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

  • Eccl 8:7
    74%

    7 For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

  • Prov 3:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

    14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

  • Prov 8:11
    74%

    11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

  • Job 3:21
    73%

    21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

  • Job 32:13
    73%

    13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

  • Prov 17:16
    72%

    16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

  • Prov 30:3
    72%

    3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

  • Job 15:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

  • Job 11:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

    8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

  • Job 28:7
    72%

    7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

  • Job 32:9
    72%

    9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

  • Job 20:4
    72%

    4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

  • Job 28:23
    72%

    23 "God understands its way, and he knows its place.

  • Job 36:19
    71%

    19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

  • Eccl 6:12
    71%

    12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Prov 2:4
    71%

    4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

  • Eccl 9:5
    71%

    5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Job 36:26
    71%

    26 Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

  • Job 42:3
    71%

    3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

  • Ps 92:6
    71%

    6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • Eccl 2:21
    70%

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

  • Job 38:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

    20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

  • Job 28:1
    70%

    1 "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

  • Eccl 9:10
    70%

    10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

  • Prov 24:14
    70%

    14 so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.

  • Ps 39:6
    70%

    6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Job 4:21
    70%

    21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

  • Eccl 1:15
    70%

    15 That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

  • Eccl 6:8
    70%

    8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

  • Job 28:28
    70%

    28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

  • Ps 139:6
    70%

    6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

  • Prov 20:15
    70%

    15 There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

  • Eccl 3:21
    69%

    21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

  • Prov 16:16
    69%

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

  • Job 5:27
    69%

    27 Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."