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    The miner breaks apart flinty stone,
        uprooting the ancient mountains.
10     He carves tunnels through the rock,
        revealing precious treasures.
11     He dams up[a] the underground streams until they cease seeping,
        and he brings out into the light what was hidden there in the darkness.

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  1. 28:11 Hebrew manuscripts read, “He searches.”

People assault the flinty rock(A) with their hands
    and lay bare the roots of the mountains.(B)
10 They tunnel through the rock;(C)
    their eyes see all its treasures.(D)
11 They search[a] the sources of the rivers(E)
    and bring hidden things(F) to light.

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  1. Job 28:11 Septuagint, Aquila and Vulgate; Hebrew They dam up