“The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.”
A shaft is opened away from where people dwell; forgotten by the foot of the traveler, hanging and swaying far from mankind, describing the miner's descent into hidden depths where human presence is normally absent, emphasizing the extraordinary effort required to access subterranean resources. The opening of a shaft suggests construction of access to the underground, the deliberate engineering of passages where none naturally exist. The reference to forgetfulness by the foot of travelers emphasizes that mining occurs in places humans do not naturally inhabit, in regions that lie beyond ordinary human geography. The hanging and swaying suggests the precariousness of the miner's position, suspended in dangerous darkness.
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