Bible verse

Job 28:5

Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

Job 28:5 · BSB

Job 28:5 in context

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.

7 No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.

8 Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.

9 The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

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Job 28:5 in other translations

KJV

[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

ASV

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

ERV

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

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