ECB(i)
1 Surely there is a source for the silver and a place to refine gold;
2 iron is taken from the dust and copper poured from the stone.
3 He sets an end to darkness and probes all conclusion - the stones of darkness and the shadow of death.
4 The wadi breaks out from the sojourner; - forgotten by the foot; they languish; they drift away from men.
5 The earth, from which comes bread; and underneath, turns as fire.
6 The stones thereof are the place of sapphires; and it has dust of gold.
7 There is a path which neither the swooper knows nor the eye of the hawk scans;
8 nor the sons of pride tread, nor the roaring lion attacks.
9 He spreads his hand on the flint he overturns the mountains by the roots:
10 he splits rivers among the rocks and his eye sees all the esteemed:
11 he binds the floods from weeping and brings the concealed to light.
12 And wisdom, where is it found? Where is the place of discernment?
13 Man neither knows the appraisal; nor finds it in the land of the living.
14 The abyss says, Not in me! And the sea says, Not with me!
15 Neither is gold given for it nor silver weighed for the price:
16 nor balanced with the ore of Ophir - with the esteemed onyx, or the sapphire.
17 Neither are the gold and the crystal ranked with it nor exchanged for instruments of pure gold:
18 nor corals or pearls remembered; for the sowing of wisdom is above pearls.
19 Neither is the topaz of Kush ranked with it; nor balanced with ore.
20 Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of discernment?
21 - seeing it is concealed from the eyes of all living - hidden from the flyers of the heavens.
22 Abaddon and death say, We hear the fame with our ears:
23 Elohim discerns the way and he knows the place:
24 for he looks to the ends of the earth and sees under the whole heavens
25 - to work the weight for the winds - to gauge the waters by measure.
26 He works a statute for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the voice;
27 then he sees and scribes; he prepares, yes, and probes.
28 And to humanity he says, Behold, to Adonay is wisdom; and to turn aside from evil, discernment.