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¹ Surely there is a veine for the siluer, and a place for golde where they fine it. ² Iron is taken out of the earth, and brasse is molten out of the stone. ³ Hee setteth an ende to darkenesse, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkenesse and the shadow of death. ⁴ The floud breaketh out from the inhabitant; euen the waters forgotten of the foote: they are dried vp, they are gone away from men. ⁵ As for the earth, out of it commeth bread: and vnder it, is turned vp as it were fire. ⁶ The stones of it are the place of Saphires: and it hath dust of golde. ⁷ There is a path which no foule knoweth, and which the vulturs eye hath not seene. ⁸ The lyons whelps haue not troden it, nor the fierce lyon passed by it. ⁹ Hee putteth foorth his hand vpon the rocke; hee ouerturneth the mountaines by the rootes. ¹⁰ Hee cutteth out riuers among the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing. ¹¹ He bindeth the flouds from ouerflowing, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he foorth to light. ¹² But where shall wisedome bee found? And where is the place of vnderstanding? ¹³ Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the liuing.

¹⁴ The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. ¹⁵ It cannot be gotten for golde, neither shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof. ¹⁶ It cannot be valued with the golde of Ophir, with the precious Onix, or the Saphire. ¹⁷ The golde and the chrystall cannot equall it: and the exchange of it shall not be for iewels of fine golde. ¹⁸ No mention shalbe made of Corall, or of Pearles: for the price of wisedome is aboue Rubies. ¹⁹ The Topaze of Ethiopia shall not equall it, neither shall it be valued with pure golde.

²⁰ Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding? ²¹ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all liuing, and kept close from the foules of the ayre. ²² Destruction and death say, Wee haue heard the fame thereof with our eares. ²³ God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. ²⁴ For hee looketh to the endes of the earth, and seeth vnder the whole heauen: ²⁵ To make the weight for the windes, and he weigheth the waters by measure. ²⁶ When hee made a decree for the raine, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: ²⁷ Then did he see it, and declare it, he prepared it, yea and searched it out. ²⁸ And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord, that is wisedome, and to depart from euill, is vnderstanding.