Job 28:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the stone ore.

American Standard Version (1901)

Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

Common English Bible

Iron is taken from the earth; rock is smelted into copper.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Iron is taken from the earth, and ore, unbound by heat, is turned into brass.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Iron is taken out of the earth: and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.

Job 28:2 Cross References

Genesis 4:22

Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

1 Chronicles 22:14

With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone also I have provided. To these you must add more.

Job 28:1

“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place for gold to be refined.

Job 28:3

Miners put an end to darkness and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

Numbers 31:22

gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

Deuteronomy 8:9

a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper.