Job Chapter 28 verse 2 Holy Bible
Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.
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Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.
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Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone.
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Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
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Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is melted out of the stone.
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Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is smelted out of the ore.
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Iron from the dust is taken, And `from' the firm stone brass.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Iron is taken out of the earth (see the comment on Job 20:24). Iron was found in the hills of Palestine (Deuteronomy 8:9), in the trans-Jordanic region (Josephus, 'Bell. Jud,' 4:8. ยง 2), in the sandstone of the Lebanon ('Hist. of Phoenicia,' p. 47), and in Egypt ('Hist. of Ancient Egypt,' vol. 1. p. 93), probably also in many other places. It is scarcely ever found except in the shape of iron ore, and so has to be "taken out of the earth." And brass is molten out of the stone. By "brass" we must understand copper, since the amalgam brass is never found in a natural state. Copper was yielded abundantly in very early times by the mines which the Egyptians worked in the Sinaitic peninsula ('Hist. of Ancient Egypt,' vol. 1. pp. 93, 94). It was also obtainable from Palestine (Deuteronomy 8:9), Cyprus ('Hist. of Phoenicia,' p. 311), and Armenia (Ezekiel 27:13). Sometimes it is found pure, but generally in the shape of copper ore, which has to be "molten" for the pure metal to run off.
