Job 28:1-8 ▼

1 For there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

2 Iron is taken out of the dust, And brass is molten out of the stone.

3 Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out to the furthest bound The stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.

4 He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot that passeth by; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

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

7 That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon's eye seen it;

8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the lion passed thereby.