Job 28:13

In 11 translations

BSB

No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.

KJV

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

WEB

Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.

ASV

Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

LSV

Man has not known its arrangement, || Nor is it found in the land of the living.

YLT

Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.

DBY

Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living.

DRC

Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of them that live in delights.

GNV

Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.

JPS

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

LXXE

A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been discovered among men.

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Original-language editions

WLC

לֹא־יָדַ֣ע אֱנ֣וֹשׁ עֶרְכָּ֑הּ וְלֹ֥א תִ֝מָּצֵ֗א בְּאֶ֣רֶץ הַֽחַיִּֽים׃

LXX-Br

Οὐκ οἶδε βροτὸς ὁδὸν αὐτῆς, οὐδὲ μὴν εὑρέθη ἐν ἀνθρώποις.

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• Proverbs 3:14–15for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire compares with her.
• Proverbs 8:11For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.
• Proverbs 8:18–19With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
• Proverbs 23:23Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
• Ecclesiastes 8:16–17When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night— I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to…
• Proverbs 16:16How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
• Job 28:15–19It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver. It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire. Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be…
• Isaiah 53:8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
• Psalms 119:72The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
• Psalms 19:10They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
• Matthew 13:44–46The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in…
• Job 28:21–22It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air. Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
• Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
• Isaiah 38:11I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

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