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Job 28:2 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 28:2Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 28:26 words
HebrewMeaning
בַּ֭רְזֶלbarəzel
ironnounH1270
iron
מֵ/עָפָ֣רmēʿāpār
from the dustpronH6083
dust · earth · ground · morter ···
יֻקָּ֑חyuqāḥ
it is takenverbH3947
bring · buy · carry away · drawn ···
וְ֝/אֶ֗בֶןwəʾeben
and stoneconjH68
carbuncle · mason · plummet · hail- ···
יָצ֥וּקyāṣwq
someone pours outverbH6694
pour
נְחוּשָֽׁהnəḥwšāh
coppernounH5154
steel. Compare
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 28:2

The silver hath the beginning of its veins, and to the gold there is a place, where they fine it. In silver the power of speaking, in gold brightness of life or of wisdom is used to be denoted. And because heretics are so filled with pride for the brilliancy of their speaking, that they are not based firmly by any authority of the sacred books, (which books are for speaking like a kind of veins of silver to us, because from those identical books we derive the spring and…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 18 §38
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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