The Morning Psalm

Job 28:5

King James Version

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
Job 28:5, KJV

Job 28:5 in context

3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

5As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

6The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

7There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:

About this book

The Book of Job — summary, themes & key verses

Faith in suffering — the ancient question of why the innocent suffer, and where God is in it.