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| [1]For there is a place for the silver, whence it comes, and a place for the gold, whence it is refined. |
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| [2]For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone. |
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| [3]He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death. |
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| [4]There is a cutting off the torrent by reason of dust: so they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men. |
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| [5]As for the earth, out of it shall come bread: under it has been turned up as it were fire. |
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| [6]Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and her dust supplies man with gold. |
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| [7]There is a path, the fowl has not known it, neither has the eye of the vulture seen it: |
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| [8]neither have the sons of the proud trodden it, a lion has not passed upon it. |
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| [9]He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp rock, and turned up mountains by the roots: |
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| [10]and he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, and mine eye has seen every precious thing. |
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| [11]And he has laid bare the depths of rivers, and has brought his power to light. |
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| [12]But whence has wisdom been discovered? and what is the place of knowledge? |
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| [13]A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been discovered among men. |
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| [14]The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me. |
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| [15]One shall not give fine gold instead of it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it. |
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| [16]Neither shall it be compared with gold of Sophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire. |
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| [17]Gold and crystal shall not be equalled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange. |
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| [18]Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned: but do thou esteem wisdom above the most precious things. |
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| [19]The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equalled to it; it shall not be compared with pure gold. |
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| [20]Whence then is wisdom found? and of what kind is the place of understanding? |
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| [21]It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky. |
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| [22]Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it. |
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| [23]God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it. |
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| [24]For he surveys the whole earth under heaven, knowing the things in the earth: |
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| [25]all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water. |
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| [26]When he made them, thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder. |
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| [27]Then he saw it, and declared it: he prepared it and traced it out. |
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| [28]And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding. |
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