3 Miners carry lights deep into caves to search for these rocks in the deepest darkness.
4 Far from where people live, they dig deep into the ground, down where no one else has been before. There they work all alone, hanging from ropes.
5 Food grows on the ground above. But underground it is different, as if everything were melted by fire.
6 In the rocks there are sapphires and grains of pure gold.
7 Wild birds know nothing about the way to these places. No falcon has ever seen it.
8 Wild animals have never been there. Lions have not traveled that way.
9 Miners dig the hardest rocks. They dig away at the mountains and make them bare.