1. Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted.
2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.
3. He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.
4. The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.
5. The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.
6. The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.
7. The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.
8. The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.
9. He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.
10. In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.
11. The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light.