Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
All Commentaries on Job 28:13 Go To Job 28
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Price. It has none, like other precious things, Baruch iii. 15.
In delights is not expressed in Hebrew or Septuagint. (Calmet)
But to live in misery is hardly to be accounted living, (Haydock) and the addition restrains the proposition, as some men possess this treasure, though not those who take no pains (Calmet) to mortify corrupt nature. (Haydock)
Chaldean, "it is not found in the land of the proud, whose life is spent in sin. "(Calmet)
True wisdom is found, not in natural, but in supernatural, things. (Worthington)
