1Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it]. 2Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone. 3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 5[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. 6The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. 7There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it. 8The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby. 9He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. 10He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing. 11He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light. 12But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding? 13Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. 14The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me. 15It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price thereof. 16It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir. 17The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde. 18No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies. 19The Topaz of Ethiopia shal not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold. 20Whence then commeth wisedome? And where is the place of vnderstanding, 21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 22Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares. 23God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 24For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen, 25To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure. 26When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders, 27Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it. 28And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.