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Job 28

Job sheweth that the wisdome of God is Unsercheable.
1.The silver surely hathe his vaine, aand the golde his place, where thei take it.
2.Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.
3.God putteth an end to darknes, band he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bonde of darkenes, and of the shadow of death.
4.The flood breaketh out against the cinhabitant, & the waters dforgotten of the fote, being higher then man, are gone away.
5.Out of the same earth cometh ebread, & under it, as it were fyre is turned up.
6.The stones thereof are a place fof saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.
7.There is a path which no foule hathe knowen, nether hathe the kite’s eye sene it.
8.The lion’s whelps have not walked it, nor the lion passed thereby.
9.He putteth his hand upon the grockes, and overthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.
10.He breaketh rivers in the rockes, and his eye seeth everie precious thing.
11.He bindeth the floods, that they do not overflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.
12.But where is wisdome founde? hand where is the place of understanding?
13.Man knoweth not ithe price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the living.
14.The depth saith, It is not in me: the sea also saith, It is not with me.
15.kGolde shal not be given for it, nether shal silver be weighed for the price thereof.
16.It shal not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophír, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.
17.The golde nor the christal shalbe equal unto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.
18.No mencion shalbe made of coral, nor of the lgabish: for wisdome is more precious then perles.
19.The Topaz of Ethiopia shal not be equal unto it, nether shal it be valued with the wedge of pure golde.
20.Whence then cometh wisdome? and where is the place of understanding,
21.Seing it is hid from the eyes of all the living, and is hid from the mfoules of the heaven?
22.Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our eares.
23.But God understandeth the nway thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24.For he beholdeth the ends of the worlde, & seeth all that is under heaven,
25.To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.
26.When he made a decree for the raine, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,
27.Then did he se it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it.
28.And unto man he said, Beholde, *the ofeare of the Lord is wisdome, and to departe from evil is understanding.

Notes

1-a.
His purpose is to declare that man may attain in this world to divers secrets of nature, but man is never able to comprehend the wisdom of God.
3-b.
There is nothing but it is compassed within certain limits, and has an end, but God’s wisdom.
4-c.
Meaning, him that dwells thereby.
4-d.
Which a man cannot wade through.
5-e.
That is, corn, and underneath is brimstone or coal, which easily conceives fire.
6-f.
He alludes to the mines and secrets of nature, which are under the earth, where into neither fowls nor beasts can enter.
9-g.
After that he has declared the wisdom of God in the secrets of nature, he describes his power. 1 Geneva Bible 1560
12-h.
Though God’s power, & wisdom may be understood in earthly things, yet his heavenly wisdom cannot be attained unto.
13-i.
It is too high a thing for man to attain unto in this world.
15-k.
It can neither be bought for gold, nor precious stones, but is only the gift of God.
18-l.
Which is thought to be a kind of precious stone.
21-M.
eaning, that there is no natural means, whereby man might attain to the heavenly wisdom: which he means by the fowls, that fly high.
23-n.
He makes God only the author of this wisdom, and the giver thereof.
28-*.
Prov. 1.7.
28-o.
He declares that man has so much of this heavenly wisdom as he shows by fearing God, and departing from evil.