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1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.
3 He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4 The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5 [As for] the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6 The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.
7 [There is] a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture's eye has not seen:
8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9 He puts forth his hand upon the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.
10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.
11 He binds the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid brings he forth to light.
12 But where will wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?
13 Man knows not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14 The depth says, It [is] not in me: and the sea says, [It is] not with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed [for] the price of it.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [will not be for] jewels of fine gold.
18 No mention will be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, neither will it be valued with pure gold.
20 Whence then comes wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.
23 God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, [and] sees under the whole heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
27 Then he saw it, and declared it; he prepared it, yes, and searched it out.
28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.