Job 28:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 8:9 : 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.
  • Gen 4:22 : 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.
  • Num 31:22 : 22 But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,
  • 1 Chr 22:14 : 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.

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  • Job 28:1
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    1 Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

  • Job 28:3
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    3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

  • Job 28:5-6
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    5 As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.

    6 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

  • Prov 25:4
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    4 Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

  • Deut 28:23
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    23 And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

  • Deut 8:9
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    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.

  • Exod 31:4
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    4 To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;

  • Jer 15:12
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    12 Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?

  • Job 28:15
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    15 Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.

  • Job 40:18
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    18 Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

  • Job 28:9-10
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    9 Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

    10 He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

  • Jer 10:9
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    9 Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

  • Job 22:24
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    24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

  • Isa 60:17
    71%

    17 In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.

  • Num 31:22
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    22 But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,

  • 1 Chr 29:2
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    2 Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

  • Dan 2:35
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    35 Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.

  • Job 19:24
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    24 And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

  • Exod 35:32
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    32 As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;

  • Job 6:12
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    12 Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?

  • Job 28:19-20
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    19 The topaz of Ethiopia is not equal to it, and it may not be valued with the best gold.

    20 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Jer 6:29
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    29 The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.

  • Prov 17:3
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    3 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • Job 14:18
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    18 But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

  • Isa 40:19
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    19 The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

  • 1 Chr 22:16
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    16 In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.

  • Ezek 22:18
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    18 Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.

  • Dan 2:33
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    33 Its legs of iron, its feet were in part of iron and in part of potter's earth.

  • Isa 44:12
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    12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.

  • Job 28:12
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    12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Prov 27:21
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    21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

  • Ps 114:8
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    8 Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

  • 1 Chr 22:3
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    3 And he got together a great store of iron, for the nails for the doors and for the joins; and brass, more in weight than might be measured;

  • Job 28:17
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    17 Gold and glass are not equal to it in price, and it may not be exchanged for jewels of the best gold.

  • Gen 2:12
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    12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

  • 2 Chr 4:18
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    18 So Solomon made all these vessels, a very great store of them, and the weight of the brass used was not measured.

  • Ezek 27:12
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    12 Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.

  • Ezek 22:20
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    20 As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

  • Job 28:27
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    27 Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.

  • Prov 2:4
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    4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

  • Job 12:22
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    22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • Lev 26:19
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    19 And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

  • Job 38:13-14
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    13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

    14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

  • Hab 2:11
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    11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.