The American Educational Readers

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3. There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen; the lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. He putteth forth His hand upon the rock; He overturned! the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and His eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the floods from overflowing, and the thing that is hid bringeth He forth to light. 4. But where shall Wisdom be found ? and where is the place of understanding ? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It can not be gotten for gold; neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 5. It can not be valued with the gold of O'phir, with the precious o'nyx, or the sapphire. The gold and the crystal can not equal it; and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for the price of wisdom is above rabies. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. 6. Whence then cometh wisdom ? and where is the place of understanding ? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. God understandeth the way thereof, and He knoweth the place thereof. For He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; to make the weight for the winds; and He weigheth the waters by measure. 7. When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did He see it, and declare it: He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is Wisdom; and to depar...