Job 28:4

4 They open up a mineshaft far from civilization, where no one has set foot. [In this shaft] men dangle and swing back and forth.

Job 28:4 In-Context

2 Iron is taken from the ground, and rocks are melted for [their] copper.
3 [Humans] bring an end to darkness [there] and search to the limit of the gloomy, pitch-black rock.
4 They open up a mineshaft far from civilization, where no one has set foot. [In this shaft] men dangle and swing back and forth.
5 "Above the ground food grows, but beneath it the food decays as if [it were burned] by fire.
6 That place's stones are sapphire. Its dust contains gold.
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