Job 28:1-11

New King James Version

28 “Surely there is a mine for silver,
And a place where gold is refined.
² Iron is taken from the ^[a]earth,
And copper is smelted from ore.
³ Man puts an end to darkness,
And searches every recess
For ore in the darkness and the shadow of death.
⁴ He breaks open a shaft away from people;
In places forgotten by feet
They hang far away from men;
They swing to and fro.
⁵ As for the earth, from it comes bread,
But underneath it is turned up as by fire;
⁶ Its stones are the source of sapphires,
And it contains gold dust.
⁷ That path no bird knows,
Nor has the falcon’s eye seen it.
⁸ The ^[b]proud lions have not trodden it,
Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.
⁹ He puts his hand on the flint;
He overturns the mountains ^[c]at the roots.
¹⁰ He cuts out channels in the rocks,
And his eye sees every precious thing.
¹¹ He dams up the streams from trickling;
What is hidden he brings forth to light.