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¹ The siluer surely hath his veyne, and ye gold his place, where they take it.² Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.³ God putteth an end to darkenesse, and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkenesse, and of the shadowe of death.⁴ The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.⁵ Out of the same earth commeth bread, & vnder it, as it were fire is turned vp.⁶ The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.⁷ There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.⁸ The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.⁹ He putteth his hand vpon the rockes, & ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.¹⁰ He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.¹¹ He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.¹² But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?¹³ Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.

¹⁴ The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.¹⁵ Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.¹⁶ It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.¹⁷ The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.¹⁸ No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles.¹⁹ The Topaz of Ethiopia shal not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.

²⁰ Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding,²¹ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen?²² Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.²³ But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.²⁴ For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen,²⁵ To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.²⁶ When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,²⁷ Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it.²⁸ And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart from euil is vnderstanding.