Job 28:2
1 “Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
3 Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
4 Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
- KJV
- Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
- WEB
- Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
- ASV
- Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.
- DARBY
- Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone.
- BLB
- Iron is taken from the dust, and [from] rock copper is smelted.
- ÅB
- jern hentes fram av jorden, og stein smeltes til kobber.
- OTB
- Jern blir utvunnet fra jorden,
Og kobber blir renset fra stein. - B1930
- jern hentes frem av jorden, og sten smeltes til kobber.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 8:9
a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
Read in contextGenesis 4:22
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Read in contextNumbers 31:22
Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
Read in context1 Chronicles 22:14
Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and you may add to them.
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