Holy Scripture

Job 28:5

A church father on this verse
“The earth from which bread arose, is overturned in its place by fire. But this Judaea which grows thus hardened, whether what she was for long, or what she underwent afterwards, let us listen to. Judaea was wont to give bread, in that she used to set before men the words of the Law. Which same Law because the children…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVIII

Source: Septuagint

Original

5As for the earth, out of it shall come bread: Under it has been turned up as it were fire.

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In context

3He has set a bound to darkness, And he searches out every limit: A stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

4There is a cutting off of the torrent by reason of dust: So they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men.

— Job 28:5 —

6Her stones are the place of the sapphire: And her dust supplies man with gold.

7There is a path, the fowl has not known it, Neither has the eye of the vulture seen it:

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