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.
9. On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand;he has overturned mountains at their bases.