Job 28:5
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.
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
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
- Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
- KJV
- As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
- WEB
- As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
- ASV
- As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
- DARBY
- As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;
- BLB
- The earth, from which bread comes forth, and underneath is turned as [by] fire—
- ÅB
- Av jorden kommer det brød; men inne i den blir alt veltet om som av ild.
- OTB
- Jorden, fra den kommer mat,
Og under den vendes den opp som ild. - B1930
- Av jorden kommer det brød; men inne i den blir alt veltet om som av ild.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 28:25–29
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
Read in contextPsalms 104:14–15
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Read in contextGenesis 1:11–12
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Read in contextGenesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Read in contextEzekiel 28:13–14
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
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