| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“People know where to mine silver and how to refine gold. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They know where to dig iron from the earth and how to smelt copper from rock. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They know how to shine light in the darkness and explore the farthest regions of the earth as they search in the dark for ore. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They sink a mine shaft into the earth far from where anyone lives. They descend on ropes, swinging back and forth. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Food is grown on the earth above, but down below, the earth is melted as by fire. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Here the rocks contain precious lapis lazuli, and the dust contains gold. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7These are treasures no bird of prey can see, no falcon’s eye observe. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8No wild animal has walked upon these treasures; no lion has ever set his paw there. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9People know how to tear apart flinty rocks and overturn the roots of mountains. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They cut tunnels in the rocks and uncover precious stones. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They dam up the trickling streams and bring to light the hidden treasures. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“But do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13No one knows where to find it, for it is not found among the living. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14‘It is not here,’ says the ocean. ‘Nor is it here,’ says the sea. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15It cannot be bought with gold. It cannot be purchased with silver. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16It’s worth more than all the gold of Ophir, greater than precious onyx or lapis lazuli. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Wisdom is more valuable than gold and crystal. It cannot be purchased with jewels mounted in fine gold. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Coral and jasper are worthless in trying to get it. The price of wisdom is far above rubies. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Precious peridot from Ethiopia cannot be exchanged for it. It’s worth more than the purest gold. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“But do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21It is hidden from the eyes of all humanity. Even the sharp-eyed birds in the sky cannot discover it. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Destruction and Death say, ‘We’ve heard only rumors of where wisdom can be found.’ |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23“God alone understands the way to wisdom; he knows where it can be found, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24for he looks throughout the whole earth and sees everything under the heavens. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He decided how hard the winds should blow and how much rain should fall. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26He made the laws for the rain and laid out a path for the lightning. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Then he saw wisdom and evaluated it. He set it in place and examined it thoroughly. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And this is what he says to all humanity: ‘The fear of the Lord is true wisdom; to forsake evil is real understanding.’” |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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