3 Man puts an end to the darkness;he searches the farthest recessesfor the ore in the deepest darkness.
4 Far from where people live he sinks a shaft,in places travelers have long forgotten,far from other people he dangles and sways.
5 The earth, from which food comes,is overturned below as though by fire;
6 a place whose stones are sapphiresand which contains dust of gold;
7 a hidden path no bird of prey knows – no falcon’s eye has spotted it.
8 Proud beasts have not set foot on it,and no lion has passed along it.
9 On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand;he has overturned mountains at their bases.