Job 28
Reading Job chapter 28 in the World English Bible, public-domain text from 2000.
Verses 1–10
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 copper is smelted out of the ore.
3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
6 Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
9 He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
10 He cuts out channels amongst the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
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