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Job 28:2
Job 28:2 is verse 2 of Job chapter 28, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
King James Version
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
World English Bible
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
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Job 28:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 “Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
3 Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
4 Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 4:22And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Numbers 31:22Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
Deuteronomy 8:9a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
1 Chronicles 22:14Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and you may add to them.