Job 28:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 8:9 : 9 a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.
  • Gen 4:22 : 22 Now Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who heated metal and shaped all kinds of tools made of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain 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, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the LORD’s temple. I have stored up 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

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    5The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

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    27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

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    23The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

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    9a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

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    12Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?

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    15Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

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

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