Job 28:2

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:9

a land in which thou shall eat bread without scarceness. Thou shall not lack anything in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou may dig copper.

Numbers 31:22

only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead--

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah, she also bore 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 LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight, for it is in abundance. Also I have prepared timber and

Job 28:1

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

Job 28:3

[Man] sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.