Job 28:1-11

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

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

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

4He 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.

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

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

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

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

9The miner uses a flint tool and turns up ore from the root of the mountains.

10He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.

11He dams up the streams from flowing so that he may bring to light what is hidden.