Job 28:1-11

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

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

3Man puts an end to darkness; he searches to the farthest reaches for ore in gloom and blackest darkness.

4He cuts open a shaft far from dwellings, in places forgotten by feet. Far from other people, they dangle back and forth.

5The earth, from which food comes, is transformed as by fire;

6a place whose rocks are sapphires, its dust contains gold.

7No bird of prey knows the path; nor falcon’s eye has seen it.

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

9Man sets his hand against the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.

10He carves out tunnels through the rocks; his eye sees every precious thing.

11He dams up streams from flowing. And brings hidden things to light.