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| [1]The silver surely hath his vein, and the gold his place, where they take it. |
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| [2]Iron is taken out of the dust, and brass is molten out of the stone. |
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| [3]God putteth an end to darkness, and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkness, and of the shadow of death. |
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| [4]The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foot, being higher than man, are gone away. |
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| [5]Out of the same earth cometh bread, and under it, as it were fire is turned up. |
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| [6]The stones thereof are a place of sapphires, and the dust of it is gold. |
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| [7]There is a path which no fowl hath known, neither hath the kite's eye seen it. |
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| [8]The lion's whelps have not walked it, nor the lion passed thereby. |
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| [9]He putteth his hand upon the rocks, and overthroweth the mountains by the roots. |
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| [10]He breaketh rivers in the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing. |
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| [11]He bindeth the floods, that they do not overflow, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light. |
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| [12]But where is wisdom found? And where is the place of understanding? |
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| [13]Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the living. |
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| [14]The depth saith, It is not in me: the sea also saith, It is not with me. |
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| [15]Gold shall not be given for it, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. |
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| [16]It shall not be valued with the wedge of gold of Ophir , nor with the precious onyx, nor the sapphire. |
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| [17]The gold nor the crystal shall be equal unto it, nor the exchange shall be for plate of fine gold. |
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| [18]No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisdom is more precious than pearls. |
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| [19]The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal unto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold. |
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| [20]Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding, |
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| [21]Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the living, and is hid from the fowls of the heaven? |
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| [22]Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. |
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| [23]But God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. |
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| [24]For he beholdeth the ends of the world , and seeth all that is under heaven, |
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| [25]To make the weight of the winds, and to weigh the waters by measure. |
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| [26]When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders, |
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| [27]Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it. |
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| [28]And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. |
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