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They open shafts in a valley away from human habitation;
    they are forgotten by travellers,
    they sway suspended, remote from people.
As for the earth, out of it comes bread;
    but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
Its stones are the place of sapphires,[a]
    and its dust contains gold.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:6 Or lapis lazuli

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