Job Chapter 28 verse 5 Holy Bible
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
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As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
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As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;
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As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
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The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - As for the earth, out of it cometh bread. Man's cleverness is such that he turns the earth to various uses. By tillage of its surface he causes it to produce the staff of life, bread: and by his mining operations the under part of it is turned up as fire, or rather, as by fire. Fire was used in some of the processes whereby masses of material were detached and forced to yield their treasures (see Pliny, 'Hist. Nat.,' 33:4. ยง 73).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) As for the earth . . .--While the ploughman and the reaper till and gather the fruits of the earth on its surface, the miner far below maintains perpetual fires, as also does the volcanic mountain, with its fields and vineyards luxuriant and fertile on its sides.
