2 Iron is taken from the ground,and copper is melted out of rocks.
3 Miners bring lightsand search deep into the minesfor ore in thick darkness.
4 Miners dig a tunnel far from where people live,where no one has ever walked;they work far from people, swinging and swaying from ropes.
5 Food grows on top of the earth,but below ground things are changed as if by fire.
6 Sapphires are found in rocks,and gold dust is also found there.
7 No hawk knows that path;the falcon has not seen it.
8 Proud animals have not walked there,and no lions cross over it.