Job 28

Bishops^{(i) 1} There is a place wher siluer is brought out of, and where golde is tryed ² Where yron is digged out of the grounde, & stones resolued to metall ³ The darkenesse shall once come to an ende: he can seke out the grounde of all thinges, the stones, the darke, and the shadowe of death ⁴ He causeth the fluddes to breake out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, beyng hygher then man, are gone away ⁵ Out of the same earth commeth bread, and vnder it as it were fire is turned vp ⁶ The stones of it are a place of Saphires, and the dust of it is golde ⁷ There is a way that the birdes knowe not, that no vultures eye hath seene ⁸ Wherin the lions whelpes walke not, and where no lion commeth ⁹ [There] putteth he his hande vpon the stonie rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaynes by the rootes ¹⁰ Riuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seeth it ¹¹ He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light ¹² Where then is wysdome founde? and where is the place of vnderstanding ¹³ Ueryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue 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 ²² Destruction and death say, We haue hearde the fame therof with our eares ²³ But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place ²⁴ For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen ²⁵ When he wayed the windes and measured the waters ²⁶ When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightninges of the thunder ²⁷ Then dyd he see her, then declared he her, prepared her, and knewe her ²⁸ And vnto man he sayd: To feare the Lorde is wysdome, and to forsake euyll is vnderstanding