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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.
The earth’s surface produces food,
but its depths are overturned as if by fire,
in places where the stones are sapphires[a]
and the dust is gold.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:6 Or lapis lazuli