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Mankind limits the darkness
    as they search the deepest depths
        for ore[a] in unfathomable darkness.
He sinks his shaft far from human habitations,
    in a place[b] forgotten by explorers;
they hang on harnesses
    as they swing back and forth.

“While the ground produces food,
    underneath it is torn up and burning hot,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:3 Lit. for darkest stone
  2. Job 28:4 The Heb. lacks in a place
  3. Job 28:5 Lit. is turned up as by fire