Job 28:2 “Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.”

Job 28:2

Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

World English Bible

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

American Standard Version

Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

Geneva Bible 1599

Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.

Darby Translation

Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone.

Young's Literal Translation

Iron from the dust is taken, And [from] the firm stone brass.

Bible in Basic English

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

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Cross references

“Iron”

Deuteronomy 8:9 Genesis 4:22 Numbers 31:22 1 Chronicles 22:14

Deuteronomy 8:9 · BSB

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.

Genesis 4:22 · BSB

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Numbers 31:22 · BSB

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

1 Chronicles 22:14 · BSB

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…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

3Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.

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