with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

and assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,

then the Almighty will be your gold, the choicest silver for you.

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

Interlude: Where Wisdom Is Found

There is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

lapis lazuli comes from its rocks, and its dust contains nuggets of gold.

It cannot be bought with the finest gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or lapis lazuli.

Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can it be had for jewels of gold.

The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it; it cannot be bought with pure gold.

“If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’

Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.

All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.