Job 28:1-8 ▼

1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine;

2 Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone.

3 [Man] putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death.

4 He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants [of the earth]: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover.

5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;

6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.

7 It is a path no bird of prey knoweth, and the vulture's eye hath not seen it;

8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it.