Job 28:5

The earth! Bread comes forth from it, || And its under-part is turned like fire.

Literal Standard 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

4A stream has broken out from a sojourner, || Those forgotten of the foot, || They were low, they wandered from man.

6A place of the sapphire [are] its stones, || And it has dust of gold.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:11And God says, “Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed [is] in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth”: and it is so.

Psalms 104:14Causing grass to spring up for livestock, || And herb for the service of man, || To bring forth bread from the earth,

Ezekiel 28:13You have been in Eden, the garden of God, || Every precious stone [was] your covering, || Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, || Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, || The workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes, || In you in the day of your being produced, have been 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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