Job 28:2

Iron, out of the ore, is taken, and, stone, poureth out copper;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Though there is, for silver, a vein, and a place for the gold they refine;

3An end, hath one set to the darkness, and, into every extremity, is, he, making search, for the stone of darkness and death-shade;

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Cross References

Genesis 4:22And, as for Zillah, she also, bare Tubal-Cain, a sharpener of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron,—and, the sister of Tubal-Cain, was Naamah.

Deuteronomy 8:9a land wherein not in scarcity, shalt thou eat food, thou shalt lack nothing therein,—a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest hew copper.

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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