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¹ There is a place wher siluer is brought out of, and where golde is tryed,² Where yron is digged out of the grounde, & stones resolued to metall.³ The darkenesse shall once come to an ende: he can seke out the grounde of all thinges, the stones, the darke, and the shadowe of death.⁴ He causeth the fluddes to breake out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, beyng hygher then man, are gone away.⁵ Out of the same earth commeth bread, and vnder it as it were fire is turned vp.⁶ The stones of it are a place of Saphires, and the dust of it is golde.⁷ There is a way that the birdes knowe not, that no vultures eye hath seene:⁸ Wherin the lions whelpes walke not, and where no lion commeth.⁹ [There] putteth he his hande vpon the stonie rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaynes by the rootes.¹⁰ Riuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seeth it.¹¹ He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.¹² Where then is wysdome founde? and where is the place of vnderstanding?¹³ Ueryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue.

¹⁴ The deepe sayth, She is not in me: the sea sayth, She is not with me.¹⁵ She can not be gotten for golde, neither may the price of her be bought with any siluer.¹⁶ No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphires may be valued with her.¹⁷ No, neither golde nor christall shall be equall vnto it, nor her exchaunge shalbe for the plate of fine golde.¹⁸ No mention shalbe made of Corall nor of the Gabis: for wisdome is more precious then pearles.¹⁹ The Topas of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure golde.

²⁰ Whence then commeth wysdome? and where is the place of vnderstanding?²¹ She is hid from the eyes of all men liuing, yea & from the foules of the ayre.²² Destruction and death say, We haue hearde the fame therof with our eares.²³ But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place.²⁴ For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen.²⁵ When he wayed the windes and measured the waters:²⁶ When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightninges of the thunder:²⁷ Then dyd he see her, then declared he her, prepared her, and knewe her.²⁸ And vnto man he sayd: To feare the Lorde is wysdome, and to forsake euyll is vnderstanding.