Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
New American Standard Bible
And underneath it is turned up as fire.
King James Version
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
Holman Bible
but below the surface the earth is transformed as by fire.
International Standard Version
"While the ground produces food, underneath it is torn up and burning hot,
American Standard Version
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
Amplified
“[As for] the earth, out of it comes food,
But underneath [its surface, down deep] it is turned over as fire.
Bible in Basic English
As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
Darby Translation
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;
Julia Smith Translation
The earth, from it will come forth bread, and under it was turned as fire.
King James 2000
As for the earth, out of it comes bread: but under it is turned up as it were fire.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[As for the] earth, from it comes food, but underneath it, it is turned up as [by] fire.
Modern King James verseion
As to the earth, out of it comes bread; and underneath it is turned up like fire.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He bringeth food out of the earth, and that which is under, consumeth he with fire.
NET Bible
The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;
New Heart English Bible
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
The Emphasized Bible
As for the earth, out of it, cometh forth bread, and, under it, is upturned, as it were fire;
Webster
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
World English Bible
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
Youngs Literal Translation
The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.
Themes
Interlinear
'erets
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 28:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Discourse On Wisdom
4 He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn, [paths] forgotten by the foot. They hang afar from men; they swing to and fro. 5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. 6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:11-12
And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind (in which is the seed of them) upon the earth. And it was so.
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,
Psalm 104:14-15
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth,
Isaiah 28:25-29
When he has leveled the face of it, does he not cast abroad the chick-peas, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?
Ezekiel 28:13-14
Thou were 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 t