Job 28:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³ Human beings light up the darkness.
    They search for ore in the deepest pits.
    They look for it in the blackest darkness.
⁴ Far from where people live they cut a tunnel.
    They do it in places where other people don’t go.
    Far away from people they swing back and forth on ropes.
⁵ Food grows on the surface of the earth.
    But far below, the earth is changed as if by fire.