1833 Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB)

Job 28

1 There is a knowledge of natural things, 12 but wisdom is an excellent gift of God.

 28:1 ¶ Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].

 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] melted [out of] the stone.

 28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shades of death.

 28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: [even the waters] forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.

 28:5 [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

 28:6 The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

 28:7 [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vultur's eye hath not seen:

 28:8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

 28:9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

 28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

 28:11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid he bringeth forth to light.

 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?

 28:13 Man knoweth not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.

 28:14 The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not with me.

 28:15 It cannot be obtained for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price of it.

 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

 28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold.

 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.

 28:19 The topaz of Cush shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

 28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?

 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.

 28:23 God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth its place.

 28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven;

 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

 28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.