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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon’s eye has not seen it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’ |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’ |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23“God understands the way to it, and he knows its place. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’” |
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