TrustBible

Job 28

About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.

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

Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.SelectedJob 28:2Ask

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

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.SelectedJob 28:4Ask

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

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

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:SelectedJob 28:7Ask

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.SelectedJob 28:15Ask

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

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

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

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

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?SelectedJob 28:20Ask

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

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.SelectedJob 28:22Ask

God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.SelectedJob 28:23Ask

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

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

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

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

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.SelectedJob 28:28Ask

Read from the KJV text.

All 42 chapters of Job
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
  23. 23
  24. 24
  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27
  28. 28
  29. 29
  30. 30
  31. 31
  32. 32
  33. 33
  34. 34
  35. 35
  36. 36
  37. 37
  38. 38
  39. 39
  40. 40
  41. 41
  42. 42