Bible Verses About Select Readings

No one knows its value, and it can't be found in the land of the living.

The deep says, 'It isn't in me,'and the sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

It can't be obtained with gold, nor can silver be weighed out to buy it.

It can't be purchased with choice gold from Ofir, or with precious onyx or sapphires.

Neither gold nor glass can be compared with it; nor can it be exchanged for a bowl of fine gold,

let alone coral or crystal; for indeed, the price of wisdom is above that of pearls.

It can't be compared with Ethiopian topaz, and it can't be valued with pure gold.

"So where does wisdom come from? where is the source of understanding,

inasmuch as it is hidden from the eyes of all living and kept secret from the birds flying around in the sky?

Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor about it with our ears.'

"God understands its way, and he knows its place.

For he can see to the ends of the earth and view everything under heaven.

When he determined the force of the wind and parceled out water by measure,

when he made a law for the rain and cleared a path for the thunderbolts;

then he saw [wisdom] and declared it, yes, he set it up and searched it out.

And to human beings he said, 'Look, fear of Adonai is wisdom! Shunning evil is understanding!'"

How blessed are those who reject the advice of the wicked, don't stand on the way of sinners or sit where scoffers sit!

Their delight is in ADONAI's Torah; on his Torah they meditate day and night.

They are like trees planted by streams -they bear their fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds.

Not so the wicked, who are like chaff driven by the wind.

For this reason the wicked won't stand up to the judgment, nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous.

For ADONAI watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is doomed.

Why are the nations in an uproar, the peoples grumbling in vain?

The earth's kings are taking positions, leaders conspiring together, against ADONAI and his anointed.

They cry, "Let's break their fetters! Let's throw off their chains!"