Job 28:5

The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

4The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.

6The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:11And he said: Let the earth bring forth the green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.

Psalms 104:14Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:

Ezekiel 28:13Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone teas thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

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 →

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