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Iron is taken from the earth,
    and copper is smelted from ore.
Man puts an end to darkness;
he searches to the farthest reaches
    for ore in gloom and blackest darkness.
He cuts open a shaft far from dwellings,
    in places forgotten by feet.
Far from other people,
    they dangle back and forth.

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Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

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