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| [1]There is a place wher siluer is brought out of, and where golde is tryed |
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| [2]Where yron is digged out of the grounde, & stones resolued to metall |
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| [3]The darkenesse shall once come to an ende: he can seke out the grounde of all thinges, the stones, the darke, and the shadowe of death |
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| [4]He causeth the fluddes to breake out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, beyng hygher then man, are gone away |
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| [5]Out of the same earth commeth bread, and vnder it as it were fire is turned vp |
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| [6]The stones of it are a place of Saphires, and the dust of it is golde |
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| [7]There is a way that the birdes knowe not, that no vultures eye hath seene |
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| [8]Wherin the lions whelpes walke not, and where no lion commeth |
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| [9][There] putteth he his hande vpon the stonie rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaynes by the rootes |
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| [10]Riuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seeth it |
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| [11]He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light |
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| [12]Where then is wysdome founde? and where is the place of vnderstanding |
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| [13]Ueryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue |
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| [14]The deepe sayth, She is not in me: the sea sayth, She is not with me |
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| [15]She can not be gotten for golde, neither may the price of her be bought with any siluer |
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| [16]No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphires may be valued with her |
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| [17]No, neither golde nor christall shall be equall vnto it, nor her exchaunge shalbe for the plate of fine golde |
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| [18]No mention shalbe made of Corall nor of the Gabis: for wisdome is more precious then pearles |
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| [19]The Topas of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure golde |
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| [20]Whence then commeth wysdome? and where is the place of vnderstanding |
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| [21]She is hid from the eyes of all men liuing, yea & from the foules of the ayre |
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| [22]Destruction and death say, We haue hearde the fame therof with our eares |
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| [23]But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place |
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| [24]For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen |
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| [25]When he wayed the windes and measured the waters |
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| [26]When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightninges of the thunder |
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| [27]Then dyd he see her, then declared he her, prepared her, and knewe her |
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| [28]And vnto man he sayd: To feare the Lorde is wysdome, and to forsake euyll is vnderstanding |
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