Devine Scripture

Job 28:5

Job chapter 28 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.4He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

v.5This passage

v.6The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

Cross references

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

  • Genesis 1:29

    And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

  • Genesis 1:11

    And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.

  • Psalms 104:14

    He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth,

  • Isaiah 28:25

    When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?

  • Ezekiel 28:13

    Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.