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¹ "Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine. ² Iron is taken out of the eretz, And copper is smelted out of the ore. ³ Man sets an end to darkness, And searches out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. ⁴ He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth. ⁵ As for the eretz, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. ⁶ Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold. ⁷ That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon's eye seen it. ⁸ The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed by there. ⁹ He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, And he overturns the mountains by the roots. ¹⁰ He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing. ¹¹ He binds the streams that they don't trickle; The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light. 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.' ¹⁵ It can't be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price. ¹⁶ It can't be valued with the gold of Ofir, With the precious shoham, or the sappir. ¹⁷ Gold and zekukeet can't equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. ¹⁸ No mention shall be made of ra`mah or of gabeesh: Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies. ¹⁹ The pitdah of Kush shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

²⁰ Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding? ²¹ Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the sky. ²² Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.' ²³ "God understands its way, And he knows its place. ²⁴ For he looks to the ends of the eretz, And sees under the whole sky. ²⁵ He establishes the force of the wind; Yes, he measures out the waters by measure. ²⁶ When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder; ²⁷ Then did he see it, and declare it. He established it, yes, and searched it out. ²⁸ To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"