1 Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
3 Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.
4 He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; they are forgotten of the foot that passeth by; they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
6 The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.
7 That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it: