Job 28:5
“As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread,.... That is, bread corn, or corn of which bread is made particularly wheat;…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread - That is, it produces food, or the materials for bread. The idea of Job seems…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Job 28:1-11
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…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
The same idea of the distance from the life of men and the unnaturalness of the miner's work is pursued in the fine…
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