Job 28:1-8 ▼

1 |There is a place where silver is mined and a place where gold is refined.

2 Iron is taken from the ground, and rocks are melted for [their] copper.

3 [Humans] bring an end to darkness [there] and search to the limit of the gloomy, pitch-black rock.

4 They open up a mineshaft far from civilization, where no one has set foot. [In this shaft] men dangle and swing back and forth.

5 |Above the ground food grows, but beneath it the food decays as if [it were burned] by fire.

6 That place's stones are sapphire. Its dust contains gold.

7 No bird of prey knows the way to it. No hawk's eye has ever seen it.

8 No proud beast has ever walked on it. No ferocious lion has ever passed over it.