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The Book of Job, Chapter 28, Verse 3

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Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.
King James Version
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
American Standard Version
[ Man] setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
New English Translation
Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.
World English Bible
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
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The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
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[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
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[There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
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The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
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He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
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He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
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He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light.
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But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?
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Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.