Bible verse
Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
Job 28:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 28.
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.
5 Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
6 Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
KJV
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.
ASV
Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.
ERV
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
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