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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 earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.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 men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang far from common man, they swing to and fro.⁵ As for the earth, out of it comes bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.⁶ The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it has dust of gold.⁷ That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon's eye seen it:⁸ The proud beasts haven't trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed thereby.⁹ He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock; He overturns the mountains by the roots.¹⁰ He cuts out channels among the rocks; And his eye sees every precious thing.¹¹ He dams up the sources of the rivers; And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.¹² But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?¹³ Common man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

¹⁴ The deep says, It is not in me; And the sea says, It is not with me.¹⁵ It can't be obtained for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.¹⁶ It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.¹⁷ Gold and glass can't equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.¹⁸ No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.¹⁹ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

²⁰ From where 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 birds of the heavens.²² Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.²³ God understands the way thereof, And he knows the place thereof.²⁴ For he looks to the ends of the earth, And sees under the whole heaven;²⁵ To make a weight for the wind: Yes, he metes 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 he saw it, and declared it; He established it, yes, and searched it out.²⁸ And to man he said, Look, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.