He cuts open a shaft far from dwellings, in places forgotten by feet. Far from other people, they dangle back and forth.
In the six-hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day, all the water sources of the great deep burst open, and the windows of the sky were opened.
Man puts an end to darkness; he searches to the farthest reaches for ore in gloom and blackest darkness.
The earth, from which food comes, is transformed as by fire;