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28 [a]Surely there is a mine for silver,
And a place for gold which they refine.
Iron is taken out of the [b]earth,
And copper is molten out of the stone.
Man setteth an end to darkness,
And searcheth out, to the furthest bound,
The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
[c]He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn;
They are forgotten of the foot;
They hang afar from men, they [d]swing to and fro.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:1 Or, For
  2. Job 28:2 Or, dust
  3. Job 28:4 Or, The flood breaketh out from where men sojourn; Even the waters forgotten of the foot: They are diminished, they are gone away from man
  4. Job 28:4 Or, flit