Job 28:1–11

Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted.

²Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.

³He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.

⁴The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the foot of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.

⁵The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.

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

⁷The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.

⁸The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.

⁹He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.

¹⁰In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.

¹¹The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light.