He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives;
    they are forgotten by travelers;
    they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.
As for the earth, (A)out of it comes bread,
    but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
Its stones are the place of (B)sapphires,[a]
    and it has dust of gold.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:6 Or lapis lazuli; also verse 16

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