Comentario citado sobre Job 28:1

A LAND WHOSE STONES ARE IRON. The meaning thereof is that in the place where you expect stones, you will find iron, for it will be mined from the dust thereof.⁸⁵See Job 28:2. He thus brought them the joyful message that in the Land of Israel there is a quarry of copper and iron which are a great necessity for the inhabitants of the Land, and thou shalt not lack any thing in it. But [the absence of] a source of silver and gold⁸⁶See ibid., Verse 1. is no deficiency in a land. And in the Targum Yerushalmi I have seen it rendered: “a Land whose stones are as bright as iron,” meaning to say that Scripture is praising the Land because in it there will be found quarries of great stones, costly stones,⁸⁷I Kings 5:31. hewn stones with which to build houses, walls, and towers, unlike the land of Egypt and many lands where people dwell in houses of clay⁸⁸Job 4:19. and their houses may become their graves [from excessive rains].⁸⁹Yerushalmi Yoma VI, 4. This was the High Priest’s prayer on the Day of Atonement for the people that live in the flatlands — “that their houses may not become their graves” [from excessive rains]. Ramban uses the expression in the broad sense indicating the advantage of the Land of Israel where homes can be built from rocks that will not endanger the lives of their inhabitants.

The wise man stated in an allegorical parable:²⁶ From here through the end of the introduction R. Ezra is explicating Job 28, which he employs to introduce sefirotic discourse.
There is a mine for silver,
And a place where gold is refined,
Iron is taken out of the earth,
And copper smelted from the rock [Job 28:1–2].
He mentions the four metals smelted from the rock, corresponding to the four types of elements as manifest in a human: white, red, green, and black biles. Similarly, every living thing, whether sentient or non-sentient, draws its life from the primary spiritual principles which exist among the ten sefirot. These are the primal progenitors of all generated things. When the verse enumerates the four terrestrial elements: silver, gold, iron, and copper, it is alluding to the four primary elements, informing us that they possess a place of origin.²⁷ Silver is ḥesed; gold is din; copper is tiferet; and iron is malkhut.

The wise man stated in an allegorical parable:²⁶ From here through the end of the introduction R. Ezra is explicating Job 28, which he employs to introduce sefirotic discourse.
There is a mine for silver,
And a place where gold is refined,
Iron is taken out of the earth,
And copper smelted from the rock [Job 28:1–2].
He mentions the four metals smelted from the rock, corresponding to the four types of elements as manifest in a human: white, red, green, and black biles. Similarly, every living thing, whether sentient or non-sentient, draws its life from the primary spiritual principles which exist among the ten sefirot. These are the primal progenitors of all generated things. When the verse enumerates the four terrestrial elements: silver, gold, iron, and copper, it is alluding to the four primary elements, informing us that they possess a place of origin.²⁷ Silver is ḥesed; gold is din; copper is tiferet; and iron is malkhut.