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Job 28:15
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It cannot be bought with gold. It cannot be purchased with silver.
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
It can't be obtained for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Wisdom cannot be bought with gold, and its cost cannot be weighed in silver.
Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
It cannot be obtained for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price of it.
It can't be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
"It cannot be obtained for pure gold, Nor can silver be weighed as its price.
It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
Gold ful cleene schal not be youun for wisdom, nether siluer schal be weied in the chaungyng therof.
It cannot be bought with gold, nor its price weighed out in silver.
It is worth much more than silver or pure gold
It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.
It can't be obtained with gold, nor can silver be weighed out to buy it.
Choice gold cannot be given for it, nor silver be weighed for its price.
You cannot buy wisdom with even the purest gold. There's not enough silver in the world to pay for it.
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
It cannot be gotten for golde, neither shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.
Pure gold cannot be traded for it and it cannot be bought with silver.
It cannot be gotten for gold, and silver cannot be weighed out as its price.
Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be counted for its price.
It cannot be bought with silver or gold.
Pure gold cannot be given in its stead, neither can silver he weighed as the value thereof;
The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.
It cannot be gotten for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
She can not be gotten for golde, neither may the price of her be bought with any siluer.
One shall not give fine gold instead of it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.
Gold cannot be exchanged for it,and silver cannot be weighed out for its price.
It can't be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
"Refined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out as its price.
Pure gold cannot be given instead of it, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed -- its price.
She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye.
"Pure gold cannot be given in exchange for it, Nor can silver be weighed as its price.
It cannot be purchased for gold, Nor can silver be weighed for its price.
"Pure gold cannot be given in exchange for it, Nor can silver be weighed as its price.
Pure gold cannot be given in place of it,Nor can silver be weighed as its price.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
It cannot be gotten for gold: Heb. Fine gold shall not be given for it, Job 28:18, Proverbs 3:13-15, Proverbs 8:10, Proverbs 8:17, Proverbs 8:19, Proverbs 16:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 23:16 - weighed Job 28:13 - knoweth Psalms 19:10 - than gold Proverbs 8:11 - wisdom
Cross-References
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughers of Canaan;
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:
And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
It cannot be gotten for gold,.... Having in general said that there is nothing in the whole compass of the terraqueous globe, nothing that is upon the surface of the earth, or in the bowels of it, or in the vast ocean, that is an equivalent price for wisdom, Job descends to particulars, and instances first in gold, that being the most valuable of metals; the word here used for it signifies "shut up" w, because it is first shut up in the earth, out of which it is dug, and when taken from thence, and refined, and made into coins or vessels, it is shut up among the treasures of men; the words may be more literally rendered, "gold shall not be given instead of it" x; as a sufficient price, or valuable consideration for it:
neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price thereof; in former times this metal used to be delivered, in buying and selling, not by the number and value of pieces, but by weight, in rude masses and lumps, and even when coined into shekels; see Genesis 23:16.
w סגור συγκλεισμον, Sept. "conclusum", Tigurine version; "clausum", Bolducius. x לא יתז-תחתיה "non dabitur pro ea", V. L. Montanus, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
It cannot be gotten for gold - Margin, “fine gold shall not be given for it.” The word which is here rendered “gold.” and in the margin “fine gold” (סגור segôr), is not the common word used to denote this metal. It is derived from סגר sâgar, to “shut,” to “close,” and means properly that which is “shut up” or “enclosed;” and hence, Gesenius supposes it means pure gold, or the most precious gold, as that which is shut up or enclosed with care. Dr. Good renders it “solid gold,” supposing it means that which is condensed, or beaten. The phrase occurs in nearly the same form סגור זהב zâhâb sâgûr, “gold shut up,” Margin,) in 1 Kings 6:20-21; 1 Kings 7:49-50; 1 Kings 10:21; 2 Chronicles 4:21-22; 2 Chronicles 9:20, and undoubtedly denotes there the most precious kind of gold. Its relation to the sense of the verb “to shut up” is not certain. Prof. Lee supposes that the idea is derived from the use of the word, and of similar words in Arabic, where the idea of heating, fusing, giving another color, changing the shape, and thence of fixing, retaining, etc., is found; and that the idea here is that of fused or purified gold. Michaelis supposes that it refers to “native” gold that is pure and unadulterated, or the form of gold called “dendroides,” from its shooting out in the form of a tree - “baumartig gewachsenes Gold” (from the Arabic, “a tree”). It is not known, however, that the Hebrew word סגר was always used to denote a tree. There can be no doubt that the word denotes “gold” of a pure kind, and it may have been given to it because gold of that kind was carefully “shut up” in places of safe keeping; but it would seem more probable to me that it was given to it for some reason now unknown. Of many of the names now given by us to objects which are significant, and which are easily understood by us, it would be impossible to trace the reason or propriety, after the lapse of four thousand years.
Neither shall silver be weighed - That is, it would be impossible to weigh out so much silver as to equal its value. Before the art of coining was known, it was common to weigh the precious metals that were used as a medium of trade; compare Genesis 23:16.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 28:15. It cannot be gotten for gold — Genuine religion and true happiness are not to be acquired by earthly property. Solomon made gold and silver as plentiful as the stones in Jerusalem, and had all the delights of the sons of men, and yet he was not happy; yea, he had wisdom, was the wisest of men, but he had not the wisdom of which Job speaks here, and therefore, to him, all was vanity and vexation of spirit. If Solomon, as some suppose, was the author of this book, the sentiments expressed here are such as we might expect from this deeply experienced and wise man.
