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Job 28:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

3 [a]He sets a boundary for the darkness;
    the farthest confines he explores.
4 He breaks open a shaft far from habitation,
    unknown to human feet;
    suspended, far from people, they sway.
5 The earth, though out of it comes forth bread,
    is in fiery upheaval underneath.

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Footnotes

  1. 28:3–4 The subject of the verbs in these verses has no clear antecedent; the context of vv. 2–6 suggests miners. The Hebrew of v. 4 is especially difficult. The general sense of vv. 1–11 is that one can find minerals in the earth; in contrast, where is Wisdom to be found (vv. 12, 20)?
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