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Job Chapter 28

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Job 28

1The siluer surely hath his veyne, and ye gold his place, where they take it.
1 Peter 1:7, 1 Peter 1:7, Isaiah 48:10, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 3:3
2Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.
Deuteronomy 8:9, Deuteronomy 8:9, Genesis 4:22, Numbers 31:22, Genesis 4:22
3God putteth an end to darkenesse, and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkenesse, and of the shadowe of death.
Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 1:13, Proverbs 2:4, Job 12:22, Job 10:21
4The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.
5Out of the same earth commeth bread, and vnder it, as it were fire is turned vp.
Isaiah 28:25, Isaiah 28:29, Isaiah 28:25, Isaiah 28:29, Psalms 104:14
6The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.
Job 28:16, Exodus 24:10, Job 28:16, Exodus 24:10, Isaiah 54:11
7There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.
Job 11:6, Job 11:6, Job 38:19, Job 28:21, Job 28:23
8The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.
9He putteth his hand vpon the rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.
Nahum 1:4, Nahum 1:6, Nahum 1:4, Nahum 1:6
10He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
Proverbs 14:23, Habakkuk 3:9, Proverbs 24:4, Proverbs 14:23, Habakkuk 3:9
11He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.
1 Corinthians 4:5, Isaiah 45:2, Isaiah 45:3, 1 Corinthians 4:5, Isaiah 45:2
12But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
Job 28:20, James 1:5, Proverbs 2:4, Proverbs 2:6, Job 28:20
13Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.
Psalms 119:72, Job 28:21, Job 28:22, Proverbs 8:18, Proverbs 8:19
14The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.
Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34, Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34
15Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.
Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 8:10, Proverbs 8:11, Proverbs 3:13
16It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.
Isaiah 13:12, Ezekiel 28:13, Psalms 45:9, Isaiah 13:12, Ezekiel 28:13
17The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.
Revelation 22:1, Revelation 22:1, Revelation 21:11, Proverbs 16:16, Ezekiel 1:22
18No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles.
Proverbs 3:15, Proverbs 3:15, Ezekiel 27:16, Proverbs 31:10, Lamentations 4:7
19The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.
Exodus 39:10, Ezekiel 28:13, Proverbs 8:19, Exodus 28:17, Exodus 39:10
20Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding,
James 1:5, Job 28:12, James 1:5, Job 28:12, Job 28:28
21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen?
Psalms 49:3, Psalms 49:4, 1 Corinthians 2:7, 1 Corinthians 2:10, Matthew 11:25
22Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.
Job 26:6, Psalms 83:10, Psalms 83:12, Job 26:6, Psalms 83:10
23But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Proverbs 8:22, Proverbs 8:31, Proverbs 8:22, Proverbs 8:31, 1 Corinthians 1:30
24For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen,
Proverbs 15:3, Proverbs 15:3, Zechariah 4:10, Zechariah 4:10, 2 Chronicles 16:9
25To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.
Psalms 135:7, Psalms 135:7, Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 40:12, Job 12:15
26When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,
Job 38:25, Job 38:25, Job 37:3, Job 37:3, Zechariah 10:1
27Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it.
Psalms 19:1, Psalms 19:1, Proverbs 8:22, Proverbs 8:29, Proverbs 8:22
28And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart from euil is vnderstanding.
Psalms 111:10, Psalms 111:10, Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 9:10

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