1
Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
2
Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is smelted from ore.
3
A miner puts an end to the darkness; he probes the deepest recesses for ore in the gloomy darkness.
4
He cuts a shaft far from human habitation, [in places] unknown to those who walk above ground. Suspended far away from people, the miners swing back and forth.
5
Food may come from the earth, but below the surface the earth is transformed as by fire.