2 Iron is taken from the ground,and rocks are melted for ⌊their⌋ copper.
3 ⌊Humans⌋ bring an end to darkness ⌊there⌋and search to the limit of the gloomy, pitch-black rock.
4 They open up a mineshaft far from civilization,where no one has set foot.⌊In this shaft⌋ men dangle and swing back and forth.
5 “Above the ground food grows,but beneath it the food decays as if ⌊it were burned⌋ by fire.
6 That place’s stones are sapphire.Its dust contains gold.
7 No bird of prey knows the way to it.No hawk’s eye has ever seen it.
8 No proud beast has ever walked on it.No ferocious lion has ever passed over it.