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