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13 Uerely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is, nether she is founde in the lande of them that lyue.
14 The depe saieth: she is not with me. The see saieth: she is not with me
15 She can not be gottten for golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny syluer.
16 No wedges of golde of Ophir, no precions Onix stones, no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her.
17 No, nether golde ner Christall, nether swete odours ner golden plate.
18 There is nothinge so worthy, or so excellent, as once to be named vnto her: for perfecte wysdome goeth farre beyonde them all,
19 The Topas that commeth out of Inde, maye in no wyse be likened vnto her: yee, no maner of apparell howe pleasaunt and fayre soeuer it be.
20 From whence then commeth wisdome? and where is the place of vnderstandinge?
21 She is hid from the eyes of all men liuinge, yee, and from the foules of the ayre.
22 Destruccion and death saye: we haue herde tell of her with oure eares.
23 But God seeth her waye, and knoweth her place.
24 For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen.
25 When he weyed the wyndes, and measured the waters:
26 when he set the rayne in ordre, and gaue the myghtye floudes a lawe:
27 Then dyd he se her, then declared he her, prepared her and knewe her.
28 And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the Lorde, is wysdome: and to for sake euell. is vnderstandinge.