Job 28:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

Cross References

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

1 Chronicles 22:14

Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

Job 28:1

Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

Job 28:3

Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

Numbers 31:22

But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,

Deuteronomy 8:9

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.