Job 28:1-11

1"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.

2Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.

3Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

4He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.

5As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.

6Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

7"That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it.

8The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.

9"Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.

10He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

11He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.