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1 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].

2 - Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] melted [out of] the stone.

3 - He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shades of death.

4 - The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: [even the waters] forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.

5 - [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

6 - The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

7 - [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vultur's eye hath not seen:

8 - The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

9 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

10 - He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

11 - He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid he bringeth forth to light.

12 - But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?

13 - Man knoweth not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.

14 - The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not with me.

15 - It cannot be obtained for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price of it.

16 - It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

17 - The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold.

18 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.

19 - The topaz of Cush shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

20 - Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?

21 - Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

22 - Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.

23 - God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth its place.

24 - For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven;

25 - To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth 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 prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

28 - And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.