Devine Scripture

Job 28:2

Job chapter 28 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

Context

v.1Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

v.2This passage

v.3Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 8:9

    a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper.

  • Numbers 31:22

    howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

  • Genesis 4:22

    And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

  • 1 Chronicles 22:14

    Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Jehovah a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.