Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
where iron is digged out of the ground, and stones resolved to metal.
New American Standard Bible
And copper is smelted from rock.
King James Version
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
Holman Bible
and copper is smelted from ore.
International Standard Version
Iron is taken from the ground; and copper is smelted from ore.
A Conservative Version
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is molten out of the stone.
American Standard Version
Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.
Amplified
“Iron is taken out of the earth,
And copper is smelted from the stone ore.
Bible in Basic English
Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.
Darby Translation
Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone.
Julia Smith Translation
Iron shall be taken from the dust, and stone will pour out brass.
King James 2000
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Iron is taken from dust, and he pours out copper [from] ore.
Modern King James verseion
Iron is taken out of the earth, and bronze is melted out of the stone.
NET Bible
Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.
New Heart English Bible
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
The Emphasized Bible
Iron, out of the ore, is taken, and, stone, poureth out copper;
Webster
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is melted out of the stone.
World English Bible
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
Youngs Literal Translation
Iron from the dust is taken, And from the firm stone brass.
Themes
Art » Primitive » Of the smelter of metals
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Smelters
Arts of the » Smelter of metals
Iron » First recorded use of » Stones of
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 28:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Discourse On Wisdom
1 There are places were silver is molten, and where gold is tried; 2 where iron is digged out of the ground, and stones resolved to metal. 3 The darkness shall once come to an end: he can seek out the ground of all things; the stones, the dark, and the shadow of death.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:9
a land wherein thou shalt not eat bread in scarceness, and where thou shalt lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou shalt dig brass.
Genesis 4:22
And Zillah she also bare Tubalcain; a worker in metal and a father of all that grave in brass and iron. And Tubalcain's sister was called Naamah.
Numbers 31:22
Gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead,
1 Chronicles 22:14
Behold: in mine adversity I have prepared for the house of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold and a thousand, thousand talents of silver, and as for brass and iron it cannot be numbered, it is so much. And I have prepared timber and stone, and shalt provide more thereto.