Job 28:2
For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
In Context
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 Noema.
Deuteronomy 8:9a land on which you shall not eat your bread with poverty, and you shall not lack any thing upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains you shall 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 →