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Job 28:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore. "

Job 28:2

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1 “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

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"a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper."

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From This Chapter

Job 28:1

"“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine."

Job 28:3

"Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness."

Job 28:4

"He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth."

Job 28:5

"As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire."

Job 28:6

"Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold."

Job 28:7

"That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it."

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