As for the earth, out of it comes bread: but under it is turned up as it were fire.
All Commentaries on Job 28:5 Go To Job 28
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
In its Hebrew and Septuagint, "and under it is turned up as it were fire "which lies in it. (Haydock)
Fire, like Sodom; to which event Job alludes, chap. xxii. 20. (Calmet)
The furnaces to melt various metals have taken the place of corn, and occupy the land. (Menochius)
Men have extracted bitumen, even from the lake of Sodom. (Pliny, vii. 15.)
Nothing escapes them. (Calmet)