Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 28:2

2. Iron is taken out of the Earth , and brass is molten out of the Stone .

Being made of Earth con[illegible: 1+ letters]cted by the heat of the Sun into that hardness, and by Miners digged out of the Earth.

Or, Copper.

Wherewith it is mixed and incorporated in the Earth, and by fire and the art of the metallist it is separated from it, and taken out of it, as Pliny observes 34. 1, 10. & 36. 27.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word].