1. Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is melted out of the stone.
3. He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shades of death.
4. The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.
5. As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6. The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7. There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vultur's eye hath not seen:
8. The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9. He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
10. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
11. He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid he bringeth forth to light.
12. But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
13. Man knoweth not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14. The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
15. It cannot be obtained for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price of it.
16. It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.