Job 28:5
Good News Translation
Food grows out of the earth, But underneath the same earth All is torn up and crushed.

New Revised Standard Version
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; but underneath it is turned up as by fire.

Contemporary English Version
Far beneath the grain fields, fires are built to break loose those rocks

New American Bible
The earth, though out of it comes forth bread, is in fiery upheaval underneath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.

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The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.

out of it

Genesis 1:11,12,29 And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. . . .

Psalm 104:14,15 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: . . .

Isaiah 28:25-29 Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof, sow gith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and barley, and millet, and vetches in their bounds? . . .

fire

Ezekiel 28:13,14 Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created. . . .

Context
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
4The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at. 5The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.6The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.…
Cross References
Job 28:4
The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.

Job 28:6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.

Psalm 104:14
Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:

Job 28:4
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