1. Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
3. Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.
4. He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; they are forgotten of the foot that passeth by; they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
5. As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
6. The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.
7. That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it:
8. The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
9. He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.