Job 28:1-8 ▼

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

2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is smelted out of the stone.

3 God sets an end to darkness, and knows the end of everything, the deep and dark mine and the shadow of death.

4 They have inherited a ruined mine from an alien people; they are gone astray from the right path and their number has diminished from among men.

5 They lay open the earth, out of which comes sustenance; and from under it is turned up material as if it were burned with fire.

6 The stones of it are the place where sapphires are found, and it has dust of gold in its paths.

7 There is a path which no bird knows, and the vulture's eye has not seen;

8 Wild beasts have not trodden it, nor has the lion passed by it.