Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

New American Standard Bible

Man does not know its value,
Nor is it found in the land of the living.

King James Version

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

Holman Bible

No man can know its value,
since it cannot be found in the land of the living.

International Standard Version

Mankind doesn't appreciate their value; and you won't find it anywhere on earth.

A Conservative Version

Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.

American Standard Version

Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

Amplified


“Man does not know the value of it;
Nor is it found in the land of the living.

Bible in Basic English

Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

Darby Translation

Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living.

Julia Smith Translation

And man knew not its estimation, and it shall not be found in the land of the living.

King James 2000

Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A human being does not know its proper value, and it is not found in [the] land of the living.

Modern King James verseion

Man does not know the price of it; nor is it found in the land of the living.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Verily, no man can tell how worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the land of the living.

NET Bible

Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

The Emphasized Bible

Mortal knoweth not the way thereof, neither can it be found in the land of the living;

Webster

Man knoweth not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.

World English Bible

Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

Youngs Literal Translation

Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Man
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

not the price
ערך 
`erek 
Usage: 33

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

in the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

References

Easton

Context Readings

Job's Discourse On Wisdom

12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding? 13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living. 14 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'



Cross References

Job 28:15-19

It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

Job 28:21-22

Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Psalm 52:5

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalm 119:72

The Law you have spoken is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Proverbs 3:14-15

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Proverbs 8:11

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

Proverbs 8:18-19

With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold. Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and do not sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Ecclesiastes 8:16-17

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

Isaiah 38:11

I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Isaiah 53:8

He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Matthew 13:44-46

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

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