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Job 28:2

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28:2Iron is taken from the ground,4

and rock is poured out5 as copper.

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Footnotes

  1. 4 Heb “from dust.”
  2. 5 The verb יָצוּק (yatsuq) is usually translated as a passive participle “is smelted” (from יָצַק [yatsaq, “to melt”]): “copper is smelted from the ore” (ESV) or “from the stone, copper is poured out” (as an imperfect from צוּק [tsuq]). But the rock becomes the metal in the process. So according to R. Gordis (Job, 304) the translation should be: “the rock is poured out as copper.” E. Dhorme (Job, 400), however, defines the form in the text as “hard,” and simply has it “hard stone becomes copper.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Iron is taken out of the earth,

and copper is smelted from the ore.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Iron is taken from the earth,

and copper is smelted from ore.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Iron is taken from the ground,

and copper is smelted from ore.

NLTNew Living Translation

They know where to dig iron from the earth

and how to smelt copper from rock.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Iron is taken from dust,

and he pours out copper from ore.

KJV 1900King James Version

Iron is taken out of the earth,

And brass is molten out of the stone.