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As for the earth, from it comes food,[a]
but[b] underneath it, it is turned up as by fire.
Its stones are the place of sapphire,
and the earthen dirt has[c] gold.
It is a path a bird of prey does not know
and the black kite’s eye has not seen.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:5 Or “bread”
  2. Job 28:5 Hebrew “and”
  3. Job 28:6 Literally “for it”

The earth, from which food comes,(A)
    is transformed below as by fire;
lapis lazuli(B) comes from its rocks,
    and its dust contains nuggets of gold.(C)
No bird of prey knows that hidden path,
    no falcon’s eye has seen it.(D)

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