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Job 28:5 KJV
Job · chapter 28 · verse 5
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.Job 28:5 · King James Version
Job 28:5 in context
3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- comethyâtsâʼto go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and…H3318 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- breadlechemfood , especially bread, or grainH3899 →
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Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and industrious searches, make themselves masters of.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11