10. He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure.
11. He dams up rivers from their sources, and he brings secret things to the light.
12. “But from where will wisdom be found? And where in the world is the place of understanding?
13. A human being does not know its proper value, and it is not found in the land of the living.
14. The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
15. “Refined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out as its price.
16. It cannot be bought for the gold of Ophir, for precious onyx or sapphire.
17. Gold and glass cannot be compared with it, and its substitution cannot be an ornament of refined gold.