19. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20. Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
21. Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.
22. Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
23. God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof.
24. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven;
25. To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
26. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;