1. “Indeed, there is a mine for silver and a place for gold to be refined.
2. Iron is taken from dust, and he pours out copper from ore.
3. He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits for the ore in gloom and deep shadow.
4. He breaks open a mine shaft away from where people dwell; those who are forgotten by travelers, they dangle, they sway far away from human beings.
5. As for the earth, from it comes food, but underneath it, it is turned up as by fire.
6. Its stones are the place of sapphire, and the earthen dirt has gold.
7. “It is a path a bird of prey does not know and the black kite’s eye has not seen.
8. Proud wild animals have not trodden it; the lion in its prime has not prowled over it.
9. He puts his hand on the hard rock; he overturns mountains by the roots.
10. He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure.
11. He dams up rivers from their sources, and he brings secret things to the light.
12. “But from where will wisdom be found? And where in the world is the place of understanding?
13. A human being does not know its proper value, and it is not found in the land of the living.