7. “It is a path a bird of prey does not know and the black kite’s eye has not seen.
8. Proud wild animals have not trodden it; the lion in its prime has not prowled over it.
9. He puts his hand on the hard rock; he overturns mountains by the roots.
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.