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;
8 the lion cubs have not trodden it,nor has the fierce lion passed by it.
9 He puts forth his hand upon the rock;he overturns the mountains by the roots.