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Iron is taken from the ground,
and copper is smelted out of stone.

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.

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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.