Job 28

¹Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine;

²Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone.

³[Man] putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death.

⁴He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants [of the earth]: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover.

⁵As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;

⁶The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.

⁷It is a path no bird of prey knoweth, and the vulture's eye hath not seen it;

⁸The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it.

⁹[Man] putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock, he overturneth the mountains by the root.

¹⁰He cutteth out channels in the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing.

¹¹He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.

¹²But wisdom, where shall it be found? and where is the place of understanding?

¹³Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living.

¹⁴The deep saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.

Choice gold cannot be given for it, nor silver be weighed for its price.