The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
Job 28:13 - New Revised Standard Version Mortals do not know the way to it, and it is not found in the land of the living. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Man knows not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living. American Standard Version (1901) Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. Common English Bible Humankind doesn’t know its value; it isn’t found in the land of the living. Catholic Public Domain Version Man does not know its price, nor is it found in the land of those who live in sweetness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Man knoweth not the price thereof: neither is it found in the land of them that live in delights. |
The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and drippings of the honeycomb.
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
I said, I shall not see the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look upon mortals no more among the inhabitants of the world.
By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people.
But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. And I did not know it was against me that they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered!”
Elam is there, and all its hordes around its grave; all of them killed, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread terror in the land of the living. They bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.