Job 28:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the stone ore.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

Common English Bible

² Iron is taken from the earth; rock is smelted into copper.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Iron is taken from the earth, and ore, unbound by heat, is turned into brass.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Iron is taken out of the earth: and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.

Job 28:2 Cross References

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

1 Chronicles 22:14

Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

Job 28:1

Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

Job 28:3

Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out to the furthest bound The stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.

Numbers 31:22

howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Deuteronomy 8:9

a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.