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As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath [its surface, down deep in the mine] there is [a]blasting, turning it up as by fire.

Its stones are the bed of sapphires; it holds dust of gold [which he wins].

That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon’s eye has not seen it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:5 Blasting of rocks is said to have been practiced on a large scale by the ancients (Speaker’s Commentary).

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