Job 28:2
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
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 wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Read in contextGenesis 4:22
And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Read in contextNumbers 31:22
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Read in context1 Chronicles 22:14
Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
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