Job 28:1-8 ▼

1 Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

2 Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is smelted from ore.

3 A miner puts an end to the darkness; he probes the deepest recesses for ore in the gloomy darkness.

4 He cuts a shaft far from human habitation, in places unknown to those who walk above ground. Suspended far away from people, the miners swing back and forth.

5 Food may come from the earth, but below the surface the earth is transformed as by fire.

6 Its rocks are a source of lapis lazuli, containing flecks of gold.

7 No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.

8 Proud beasts have never walked on it; no lion has ever prowled over it.