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Job 28

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1 habet argentum venarum suarum principia et auro locus est in quo conflatur
1 Silver hath [the] beginning of his veins (Silver hath the beginning of its veins); and a place is to gold, in which it is welled together.
2 ferrum de terra tollitur et lapis solutus calore in aes vertitur
2 Iron is taken from the earth, and a stone dissolved, or melted, by heat, is turned into money (is turned into bronze).
3 tempus posuit tenebris et universorum finem ipse considerat lapidem quoque caliginis et umbram mortis
3 God hath set (a) time to darknesses, and he beholdeth the end of all things. Also a strand parteth a stone of darkness, and the shadow of death, (God hath set an end for darkness, and he beholdeth the end of all things; a stone of darkness, and the shadow of death.)
4 dividit torrens a populo peregrinante eos quos oblitus est pes egentis hominum et invios
4 from the people going in pilgrimage; it parteth those hills, which the foot of a needy man forgat, and hills without (a) way. (The stream departeth from the people going in pilgrimage; it parteth those hills, which the foot of the needy forgot, and the hills be without a way.)
5 terra de qua oriebatur panis in loco suo igne subversa est
5 The earth, whereof bread came forth in his place, is destroyed by fire. (Though bread came forth in its place, underneath the earth is destroyed by fire.)
6 locus sapphyri lapides eius et glebae illius aurum
6 The place of a sapphire be the stones thereof, and the clots thereof be gold. (Its stones be the place for sapphires, and its dust containeth gold.)
7 semitam ignoravit avis nec intuitus est oculus vulturis
7 A bird knew not the way, and the eye of a vulture beheld it not.
8 non calcaverunt eam filii institorum nec pertransivit per eam leaena
8 The sons of merchants trode not upon that way, and a lioness passed not thereby. (The sons of a lion trod not on that way, and a lioness passed not by it.)
9 ad silicem extendit manum suam subvertit a radicibus montes
9 God stretched forth his hand to a flint; he destroyed [the] hills from the roots thereof. (God stretched forth his hand to the stones; he destroyed the mountains down to their roots.)
10 in petris rivos excidit et omne pretiosum vidit oculus eius
10 He hewed down rivers in stones (He hewed out rivers among the stones); and his eye saw all precious thing/s.
11 profunda quoque fluviorum scrutatus est et abscondita produxit in lucem
11 And he sought out the depths/the deepness of (the) floods; and he brought forth hid things into light. (And he dammed up the sources of the rivers; and he brought forth hidden things into the light.)
12 sapientia vero ubi invenitur et quis est locus intellegentiae
12 But where is wisdom found, and which is the place of understanding? (But where is wisdom found, and where is the place of understanding?)
13 nescit homo pretium eius nec invenitur in terra suaviter viventium
13 Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither it is found in the land of men living delicately. (Man knoweth not its price, or its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.)
14 abyssus dicit non est in me et mare loquitur non est mecum
14 The depth of (the) waters saith, It is not in me; and the sea speaketh, It is not with me.
15 non dabitur aurum obrizum pro ea nec adpendetur argentum in commutatione eius
15 Gold full clean shall not be given for wisdom, neither silver shall be weighed in the (ex)changing thereof. (Pure gold cannot purchase wisdom, or be exchanged for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.)
16 non conferetur tinctis Indiae coloribus nec lapidi sardonico pretiosissimo vel sapphyro
16 It shall not be comparisoned to the dyed colours of India (It cannot be compared to the gold of Ophir), nor to the most precious stone sardius, neither to the sapphire.
17 non adaequabitur ei aurum vel vitrum nec commutabuntur pro ea vasa auri
17 Neither gold, neither glass shall be made even worth thereto; and high and far appearing vessels of gold shall not be (ex)changed for wisdom, (Neither gold, nor crystal, can be made equal in worth to it; and high-priced and outstanding vessels of gold cannot be exchanged for wisdom,)
18 excelsa et eminentia non memorabuntur conparatione eius trahitur autem sapientia de occultis
18 neither they shall be had in mind in comparison thereof. Forsooth wisdom is drawn out of privy things; (nor shall they even be considered when compared to it. For wisdom is drawn from private, or hidden, things;)
19 non adaequabitur ei topazium de Aethiopia nec tincturae mundissimae conponetur
19 topaz of Ethiopia shall not be made even worth to wisdom (the topaz of Ethiopia cannot be made equal in worth to wisdom), and most precious dyeings shall not be set together in price, or comparisoned, thereto.
20 unde ergo sapientia veniet et quis est locus intellegentiae
20 Therefore whereof cometh wisdom, and which is the place of understanding? (And so from where cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding?)
21 abscondita est ab oculis omnium viventium volucres quoque caeli latet
21 It is hid from the eyes of all living men; and also it is hid from the birds of (the) heaven(s), or of the air.
22 perditio et mors dixerunt auribus nostris audivimus famam eius
22 Perdition and death said, With our ears we have heard (of) the fame of wisdom.
23 Deus intellegit viam eius et ipse novit locum illius
23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24 ipse enim fines mundi intuetur et omnia quae sub caelo sunt respicit
24 For he beholdeth the ends of the world, and beholdeth all things that be under heaven.
25 qui fecit ventis pondus et aquas adpendit mensura
25 He hath made weight to winds (He hath made a counter-weight for the winds), and he hath weighed (the) waters in measure.
26 quando ponebat pluviis legem et viam procellis sonantibus
26 When he set law to rain, and way to tempests sounding; (When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding tempests;)
27 tunc vidit illam et enarravit et praeparavit et investigavit
27 then he saw wisdom, and told it out, and he made it ready, and sought it out.
28 et dixit homini ecce timor Domini ipsa est sapientia et recedere a malo intellegentia
28 And he said to man, Lo! the dread of the Lord, that is wisdom (And he said to man, Lo! the fear of the Lord/Lo! reverence for the Lord, that is wisdom); and to go away from evil, (that) is understanding.
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