Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 28:5

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

Out of the upper parts of the Earth.

Bread-corn, or other food for mans use.

Either 1. under the same Earth, which either at the same time yields bread out of its upper, and fire out of its lower parts; or at several times; that Earth which once was fruitful, becoming, by the disposition of divine Providence, barren and sulphureous, &c. Or 2. Under other parts of the Earth.

i. e. Is digged out and setched up.

Either Gold and pretious Stones, which glitter and sparkle like fire: or Coals, and Brimstone, and other materials of Fire.

Marginal references: Ezek. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]