Job 28:5
As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
In Context
6The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
Cross References
Genesis 1:11And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind (in which is the seed of them) upon the earth. And it was so.
Psalms 104:14He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth,
Ezekiel 28:13Thou were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold. The workmanship of t
Matthew Henry on Job 28:2-12
Extent of Human Discoveries. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 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. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as… Read the whole commentary →