18:028:017 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
18:028:018 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
18:028:019 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
18:028:020 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
18:028:021 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
18:028:022 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
18:028:023 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
18:028:024 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
18:028:025 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
18:028:026 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: