King James Version
Job 28:5 in the King James Version says “As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.” — study this verse from Job chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.”
Job 28:5 · KJV
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. dust: or, gold ore
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“out of it cometh”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“and under it is turned up”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
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