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OET (OET-LV) [the]_earth from_her/it it_comes_forth food and_underneath_it it_is_turned_over like fire.
OET (OET-RV) Food comes from the land on the surface of the earth,
⇔ but underneath it keeps changing like fire.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
אֶ֗רֶץ מִמֶּ֥נָּה יֵֽצֵא־לָ֑חֶם וְ֝תַחְתֶּ֗יהָ נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ כְּמוֹ־אֵֽשׁ
earth/land from=her/it comes food and,underneath,it turned_up as fire
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. In this verse, Job is drawing a contrast between the ordinary activities that take place on the surface of the earth and the extraordinary, dangerous activities that take place in mines below the earth. Alternate translation: “People grow food on the surface of the earth, but below the surface, people transform the earth by means such as fire”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
לָ֑חֶם
food
Job is using one kind of food, bread, to mean food in general. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “food”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ כְּמוֹ־אֵֽשׁ
turned_up as fire
Job is speaking as if miners literally overturned the earth, that is, put on top what had been on the bottom. He is speaking generally of how miners reshape the terrain in which they work. (This could include actual overturning in some cases.) If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “the terrain is reshaped as with fire” or “miners reshape the terrain as with fire”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ כְּמוֹ־אֵֽשׁ
turned_up as fire
Job assumes that his friends will understand that he is using the term fire to refer to an ancient mining practice. Miners would build fires against the walls of mines to heat the rock. They would then splash water against the heated rock to cause it to crack. This allowed them to extract ore more readily. You could say that explicitly if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “miners reshape the terrain as they heat rock with fire and then douse it with water to crack it”
28:5 Miners melted rock by burning a fire in a mine for days or even weeks to melt out the ore. Some alternated fire with cold water to split the rocks.
OET (OET-LV) [the]_earth from_her/it it_comes_forth food and_underneath_it it_is_turned_over like fire.
OET (OET-RV) Food comes from the land on the surface of the earth,
⇔ but underneath it keeps changing like fire.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.