I give every green plant for food. And it was so. Men know how to put light into darkness so that a mine shaft can be sunk into the earth, and the earth searched and its deep secrets explored. Into the black rock, shadowed by death, men descend on ropes, swinging back and forth. Men know how to obtain food from the surface of the earth, while underneath there is fire.
Men know how to tear apart flinty rocks and how to overturn the roots of mountains.
They drill tunnels in the rocks and lay precious stones. The dam up streams of water and pan the gold. But though men can do all these things, they don't know where to find wisdom and understanding. They not only don't know how to get it, but, in fact, it is not to be found among the living. It cannot be bought for gold or silver, nor for all the gold in Ophir or precious onyx stones or sapphires.