Job 28:1-11

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

2Iron 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.

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

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

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

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

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

9[Man] putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock, he overturneth the mountains by the root.

10He cutteth out channels in the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing.

11He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.