1 “Surely there is a mine for the silver,and a place where they refine gold.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth,and copper is smelted from the ore.
3 Man puts an end to darkness,and searches every extremityfor ore in the darkness and the shadow of death.
4 He breaks open a shaft away from the inhabitants;in places forgotten by feetthey hang far away from men; and they totter.
5 As for the earth, from it comes bread,and underneath it is turned up as by fire.
6 Its stones are the source of sapphires,and it has dust of gold.
7 There is a path that no bird knows,and that the vulture’s eye has not seen;