Job 28:3-4

In fact, the rocks that men needed to make metals were special rocks. To find these rocks, a man would have to go underground. The man would squeeze his body through cracks in the ground. He would enter a cave. He would descend further on ropes. (That is, strong strings that men tie together in order to make them even stronger.)

v5 Food comes from the earth’s surface.

But everything is different underneath the surface.

Fire has changed everything.

v6 There are beautiful precious stones in the rocks.

There is gold in the dust.

v7 This is a secret that the birds do not know.

Birds do not visit such places. Birds cannot see these places.

v8 The proudest animals have not been there.

Lions do not go that way.

v9 But a man breaks those rocks.

A man explores beneath the mountains.

v10 A man breaks the rocks to see the precious things inside.

v11 He causes the rivers not to flow.

Then, he sees the things that the waters hid.