Job 28:2

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Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is smelted from ore.

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  • Deut 8:9 : 9 A land where you will eat bread without scarcity—where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can dig copper.
  • Gen 4:22 : 22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.
  • Num 31:22 : 22 Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
  • 1 Chr 22:14 : 14 Now, behold, in my trouble, I have prepared for the house of the Lord one hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron that it cannot be weighed, as well as timber and stone in abundance, which you may add to.

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    5The earth produces food, but beneath it is overturned as if by fire.

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    4Remove the impurities from silver, and a vessel will come forth for the refiner.

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    23The heavens over your head will be like bronze, and the earth beneath you like iron.

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    9A land where you will eat bread without scarcity—where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can dig copper.

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    12Can iron break iron from the north, or bronze?

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    15It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed in silver.

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    18His bones are like tubes of bronze; his limbs are like rods of iron.

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    24and assign your gold to the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,

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    17Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze; and instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your rulers righteousness.

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    22Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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    2So, to the best of my ability, I have made preparations for the house of my God: gold for the gold work, silver for the silver work, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx stones, inlaid stones, colored stones, all kinds of precious stones, and marble in abundance.

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    35Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were all crushed together and became like chaff from a summer threshing floor. The wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

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    24That with an iron stylus and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

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    29The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.

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