Job 28:2

For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1For there is a place for the silver, whence it comes, and a place for the gold, whence it is refined.

3He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:22And Sella + 4:22 Gr. she also.also bore Thobel; he was a smith, a manufacturer both of brass and iron; and the sister of Thobel was Noëma.

Deuteronomy 8:9a land on which thou shalt not eat thy bread with poverty, and thou shalt not want any thing upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt dig brass.

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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