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A miner puts an end to darkness by exploring its farthest limits.
He looks for ore in the gloom and in the deep darkness.[a]
He breaks open a mineshaft far from where settlers live,
in places no one has walked before.
Far away from other people, he dangles and sways.
The earth’s surface produces food,
but its depths are overturned as if by fire,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:3 The Hebrew scribes regularly spell this word so that it means shadow of death. Here, however, it may be a similar word, deep darkness.