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¹ “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

² Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

³ Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

⁴ He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

⁵ As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

⁶ Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

⁷ That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

⁸ The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

⁹ He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

¹⁰ He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

¹¹ He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

¹² “But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

¹³ Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.

¹⁴ The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

¹⁵ It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.

¹⁶ It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

¹⁷ Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

¹⁸ No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

¹⁹ The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it. It won’t be valued with pure gold.

²⁰ Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

²¹ Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

²² Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

²³ “God understands its way, and he knows its place.

²⁴ For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

²⁵ He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

²⁶ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

²⁷ then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

²⁸ To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”