God's Word Translation

Job 28:1-8 God's Word Translation (GW)

1. “There is a place where silver is minedand a place where gold is refined.

2. Iron is taken from the ground,and rocks are melted for ⌊their⌋ copper.

3. ⌊Humans⌋ bring an end to darkness ⌊there⌋and search to the limit of the gloomy, pitch-black rock.

4. They open up a mineshaft far from civilization,where no one has set foot.⌊In this shaft⌋ men dangle and swing back and forth.

5. “Above the ground food grows,but beneath it the food decays as if ⌊it were burned⌋ by fire.

6. That place’s stones are sapphire.Its dust contains gold.

7. No bird of prey knows the way to it.No hawk’s eye has ever seen it.

8. No proud beast has ever walked on it.No ferocious lion has ever passed over it.