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    open a shaft away from any inhabitant,
        places forgotten by those on foot,
        apart from any human they hang and sway.
Earth—from it comes food—
    is turned over below ground as by fire.[a]
Its rocks are the source for lapis lazuli;
    there is gold dust in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:5 Heb uncertain

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