³ Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

¹³ And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

²¹ Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

²² A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

²² Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

¹⁶ Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

¹⁷ Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

⁴ If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

¹³ See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

⁸ And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.