3 Man puts an end to darkness; he searches to the farthest reaches for ore in gloom and blackest darkness.
4 He cuts open a shaft far from dwellings, in places forgotten by feet. Far from other people, they dangle back and forth.
5 The earth, from which food comes, is transformed as by fire;
6 a place whose rocks are sapphires, its dust contains gold.
7 No bird of prey knows the path; nor falcon’s eye has seen it.
8 Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed there.
9 Man sets his hand against the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.