Gold cannot be given for it, nor can silver be weighed as its price, establishing that wisdom cannot be purchased or acquired through economic exchange, that it transcends the medium of commerce. The explicit rejection of gold and silver—the very materials humans prize and extract through such effort—suggests that wisdom operates in a fundamentally different economy. The weighing of silver as a standard of value suggests that humans have developed precise measurement for material worth, yet this measurement proves inapplicable to wisdom. The verse establishes that wisdom's value transcends quantification.

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