New English Translation

Job 28:1-8 New English Translation (NET)

1. “Surely there is a mine for silver,and a place where gold is refined.

2. Iron is taken from the ground,and rock is poured out as copper.

3. Man puts an end to the darkness;he searches the farthest recessesfor the ore in the deepest darkness.

4. Far from where people live he sinks a shaft,in places travelers have long forgotten,far from other people he dangles and sways.

5. The earth, from which food comes,is overturned below as though by fire;

6. a place whose stones are sapphiresand which contains dust of gold;

7. a hidden path no bird of prey knows – no falcon’s eye has spotted it.

8. Proud beasts have not set foot on it,and no lion has passed along it.