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Surely there is a vein for the silver and a place for gold where they fine it
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Iron is taken out of the earth and brass is molten out of the stone
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He setteth an end to darkness and searcheth out all perfection the stones of darkness and the shadow of death
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The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant even the waters forgotten of the foot they are dried up they are gone away from men
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As for the earth out of it cometh bread and under it is turned up as it were fire
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The stones of it are the place of sapphires and it hath dust of gold
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There is a path which no fowl knoweth and which the lture’s eye hath not seen
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The lion’s whelps have not trodden it nor the fierce lion passed by it
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He putteth forth his hand upon the rock he overturneth the mountains by the roots
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He cutteth out rivers among the rocks and his eye seeth every precious thing
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He bindeth the floods from overflowing and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light
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But where shall wisdom be found and where is the place of understanding
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Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the living
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The depth saith It is not in me and the sea saith It is not with me
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It cannot be gotten for gold neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof
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It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir with the precious onyx or the sapphire
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The gold and the crystal cannot equal it and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold
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No mention shall be made of coral or of pearls for the price of wisdom is above rubies
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The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it neither shall it be valued with pure gold
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Whence then cometh wisdom and where is the place of understanding
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Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept close from the fowls of the air
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Destruction and death say We have heard the fame thereof with our ears
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God understandeth the way thereof and he knoweth the place thereof
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For he looketh to the ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven
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To make the weight for the winds and he weigheth the waters by measure
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When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder
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Then did he see it and declare it he prepared it yea and searched it out
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And unto man he said Behold the fear of the Lord that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding