Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like 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.
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXVIII. The strain of this chapter is very unlike the rest of this book. Job forgets his sores, and all his sorrows, and talks like a philosopher or a virtuoso. Here is a great deal both of natural and moral philosophy in this discourse; but the…