What Does Job 28:5 Mean in the King James?
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The same earth that brings bread to the surface is turned over below, holding nourishment and upheaval in one ground.
THE MEANING
The earth that feeds you openly also bears a hidden underside that turns like fire. Bread comes from the same ground whose depths are being overturned; the verse holds nourishment and upheaval together in one living earth.
THE ROOT
נֶהְפַּךְ
nehpakh
GROWS FROM
ה־פ־ך
h-p-k
turn, overturn, or change
“turned up” in this verse is nehpakh. נֶהְפַּךְ (nehpakh, is turned or overturned) is a form of הָפַךְ (hāphakh, turn, overturn, or change). Its word family can name both a city’s overthrow and a twisted course, so the earth below the bread-bearing surface is actively turned.
ALSO GROWS
mahpekah: overthrow, upheaval
מַהְפֵּכָה
This noun from the same root names a forceful overturning, bringing that sense of upheaval into Job’s image of the earth turned beneath its surface.
tahpukot: perversities, twisted things
תַּהְפּוּכוֹת
This branch describes what has been turned or twisted out of its course, echoing the verse’s picture of the hidden ground being transformed below.
THE PATTERN
The ground that feeds life also holds materials and processes revealed beneath its surface.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.THE THREAD
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.Job’s “turned up” and Genesis’s “overthrew” come from הָפַךְ (hāphakh, turn, overturn, or change). The shared root gives Job’s turning a forceful edge: the hidden earth is being upheaved, not merely uncovered.
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