Job 28:1-11

11“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.

2Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

5The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

6a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;

7a hidden path no bird of prey knows – no falcon’s eye has spotted it.

8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

10He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.