Job 28:13 Cross References - Great

¹³ Uerely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is, nether she is founde in the lande of them that lyue.

¹⁵ She can not be gottten for golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny syluer. ¹⁶ No wedges of golde of Ophir, no precions Onix stones, no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her. ¹⁷ No, nether golde ner Christall, nether swete odours ner golden plate. ¹⁸ There is nothinge so worthy, or so excellent, as once to be named vnto her: for perfecte wysdome goeth farre beyonde them all, ¹⁹ The Topas that commeth out of Inde, maye in no wyse be likened vnto her: yee, no maner of apparell howe pleasaunt and fayre soeuer it be.

²¹ She is hid from the eyes of all men liuinge, yee, and from the foules of the ayre. ²² Destruccion and death saye: we haue herde tell of her with oure eares.

¹⁰ More to be desyred are they then golde, yee then moche fyne golde: sweter also then hony, and the hony combe.

⁵ Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that maye do hurt, O thou false tonge.

⁷² The lawe of thy mouth is dearer vnto me, then thousandes of golde and syluer.

¹⁴ for the getting of it is better then any marchaundise of syluer, and the profet of it is better then golde. ¹⁵ Wysdome is more worth then precious stones: and all the thinges that thou canst desire are not to be compared vnto her.

¹¹ For wysdome is more worth then precious stones, yee all thynges that thou canst desyre, maye not be compared vnto it.

¹⁸ Ryches and honoure are with me, ye excellent goodes and ryghteousnes. ¹⁹ My frute is better then golde and precious stone, and myne encrease more worth then fyne syluer.

¹⁶ To haue wysdome in possessyon is better then to haue golde: and to get vnderstandynge, is rather to be chosen them to haue syluer.

²³ Labour for to get the trueth: sell yt not awaye, & so do by wysdome, nourtour & vnderstandyng:

¹⁶ And so I applied my mynde to learne wysdome, & to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde (and that of soch a fassyon, that I suffred not myne eyes to slepe nether daye ner nyght) ¹⁷ I vnderstode 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 laboure to seke them out, yet can he not reach vnto them: yee though a wyse man wolde vntertake to knowe them, yet shall he not fynde them.

¹¹ I spake within my selfe: I shall neuer viset the Lorde (the Lord I saye) in thys lyfe. I shal neuer se man among the dwellers of the worlde.

⁸ He was had awaye from preson hys cause not herde, and wythout eny iudgement: Whose generacyon yet who maye nombre? he was cut of from the grounde of the lyuynge: Whych punyshment dyd go vpon hym, for the transgressyon of my people, whych in deade had deserued that punyshment,

⁴⁴ Agayne, the kyngdom of heauen is lyke vnto treasure hid in the felde, the which a man hath found and hydd: and for ioye therof goeth & selleth all that he hath, & byeth the felde. ⁴⁵ Agayne, the kyngdome of heauen is lyke vnto a marchaunt man, sekyng goodly pearles, ⁴⁶ which (when he found one precious pearle) went & solde all that he had, & bought it.