Job 28:5
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The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.

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:

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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. . . .

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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.…
Lexicon
Food
לָ֑חֶם (lā·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3899: Food, bread, grain

may come
יֵֽצֵא־ (yê·ṣê-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

from
מִמֶּ֥נָּה (mim·men·nāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of

the earth,
אֶ֗רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

but from below
וְ֝תַחְתֶּ֗יהָ (wə·ṯaḥ·te·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

it is transformed
נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ (neh·paḵ)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

as
כְּמוֹ־ (kə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 3644: Like, as, when

by fire.
אֵֽשׁ׃ (’êš)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 784: A fire


Additional Translations
Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

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

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.
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