Job 28:2-10

Tree of Life Version

² Iron is taken from the earth,
    and copper is smelted from ore.
³ Man puts an end to darkness;
he searches to the farthest reaches
    for ore in gloom and blackest darkness.
⁴ He cuts open a shaft far from dwellings,
    in places forgotten by feet.
Far from other people,
    they dangle back and forth.
⁵ The earth, from which food comes,
    is transformed as by fire;
⁶ a place whose rocks are sapphires,
    its dust contains gold.
⁷ No bird of prey knows the path;
    nor falcon’s eye has seen it.
⁸ Proud beasts have not set foot on it,
    and no lion has passed there.
⁹ Man sets his hand against the flinty rock
    and overturns mountains by the roots.
¹⁰ He carves out tunnels through the rocks;
    his eye sees every precious thing.