2. Iron is taken out of the earth,and copper is smelted from the ore.
3. Man puts an end to darkness,and searches every extremityfor ore in the darkness and the shadow of death.
4. He breaks open a shaft away from the inhabitants;in places forgotten by feetthey hang far away from men; and they totter.
5. As for the earth, from it comes bread,and underneath it is turned up as by fire.
6. Its stones are the source of sapphires,and it has dust of gold.
7. There is a path that no bird knows,and that the vulture’s eye has not seen;
8. the lion cubs have not trodden it,nor has the fierce lion passed by it.
9. He puts forth his hand upon the rock;he overturns the mountains by the roots.
10. He cuts out rivers among the rocks,and his eye sees every precious thing.
11. He prevents the floods from overflowing,and the thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
12. “But where will wisdom be found?And where is the place of understanding?
13. Man does not know its price,nor is it found in the land of the living.