Job 28:2 · KJV
“Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass {is} molten {out of} the stone. {earth: or, dust}”
— Job 28:2
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold {where} they fine {it}. {vein: or, mine}
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Job 28 — Context
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold {where} they fine {it}. {vein: or, mine}
2Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass {is} molten {out of} the stone. {earth: or, dust}
3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; {even the waters} forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:9
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any {thing} in it; a land whose stones {are} iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Numbers 31:22
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Genesis 4:22
And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain {was} Naamah. {instructer: Heb. whetter}
1 Chronicles 22:14
Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an 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. {trouble: or, poverty}