Job 28:2

New Century Version

Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is melted out of rocks.

Cross References

Genesis 4:22

Zillah gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who made tools out of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

1 Chronicles 22:14

“Solomon, I have worked hard getting many of the materials for building the Temple of the Lord. I have supplied about seven and one-half million pounds of gold, about seventy-five million pounds of silver, so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, and wood and stone. You may add to them.

Job 28:1

“There are mines where people dig silver and places where gold is made pure.

Job 28:3

Miners bring lights and search deep into the mines for ore in thick darkness.

Numbers 31:22

Put any gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead—

Deuteronomy 8:9

It is a land where you will have plenty of food, where you will have everything you need, where the rocks are iron, and where you can dig copper out of the hills.