Job 28:2

For iron comes out of the earth, 1 And brass is hewn out like stone. 1

Updated 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, 1 And a place for the gold, whence it is refined. 1

3He has set a bound to darkness, 1 And he searches out every limit: 1 A stone is darkness, and the shadow of death. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 4:22And Zillah also bore Tubal; he was a smith, a manufacturer both of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal was Naamah.

Deuteronomy 8:9a land on which thou shalt not eat thy bread with poverty, and thou shalt not want anything 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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