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Job 28:15
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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.
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
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 pure gold, Nor can silver be weighed as its price.
"Pure gold cannot be given in exchange for it, Nor can silver be weighed as its price.
It can't be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.
Pure gold cannot be given in place of it,Nor can silver be weighed as its price.
It cannot be bought with gold, nor its price weighed out in silver.
It is worth much more than silver or pure gold
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 counted 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.
She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye.
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 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.
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.
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Gold ful cleene schal not be youun for wisdom, nether siluer schal be weied in the chaungyng therof.
It can't be obtained for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
It cannot be obtained for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price of it.
It cannot be purchased for gold, Nor can silver be weighed for its price.
It cannot be bought with gold. It cannot be purchased with silver.
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.
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.
Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed -- its price.
"Pure gold cannot be given in exchange for 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
Live here, and I will be with you and bless you. I am going to give all this territory to you and to your descendants. I will keep the promise I made to your father Abraham.
Isaac sent Jacob away to Mesopotamia, to Laban, who was the son of Bethuel the Aramean and the brother of Rebecca, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Mesopotamia to find a wife. He also learned that when Isaac blessed him, he commanded him not to marry a Canaanite woman.
He found out that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Mesopotamia.
Esau then understood that his father Isaac did not approve of Canaanite women.
They will be as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. They will extend their territory in all directions, and through you and your descendants I will bless all the nations.
Jacob woke up and said, "The Lord is here! He is in this place, and I didn't know it!"
Then Jacob made a vow to the Lord : "If you will be with me and protect me on the journey I am making and give me food and clothing,
and if I return safely to my father's home, then you will be my God.
Then the Lord said to him, "Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you."
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.
