Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
Job 28:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
- KJV
- Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.earth: or, dust
- WEB
- Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
- ASV
- Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.
- LSV
- Iron is taken from the dust, || And bronze [from] the firm stone.
- YLT
- Iron from the dust is taken, And [from] the firm stone brass.
- DBY
- Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone.
- DRC
- Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.
- GNV
- Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.
- JPS
- Iron is taken out of the dust, and brass is molten out of the stone.
- LXXE
- For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- בַּ֭רְזֶל מֵעָפָ֣ר יֻקָּ֑ח וְ֝אֶ֗בֶן יָצ֥וּק נְחוּשָֽׁה׃
- LXX-Br
- Σίδηρος μὲν γὰρ ἐκ γῆς γίνεται, χαλκὸς δὲ ἶσα λίθῳ λατομεῖται.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Deuteronomy 8:9a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
- Numbers 31:22Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
- Genesis 4:22And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
- 1 Chronicles 22:14Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and…
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