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.
Wisdom is far more valuable than gold or glass.
It cannot be bought for jewels mounted in fine gold. Topaz from Ethiopia cannot purchase it, nor even the purest gold. And God surely knows where it is to be found, for he looks throughout the whole earth, under all the heavens. He makes the winds blow and sets the boundries of the oceans. He makes the laws of the rain and a path for the lightning.