Contextually the mist that went up was a phenomenon which happened during the week of creation, specifically on the third day. However, in conservative Christian doctrine this condition persisted until the time of Noah.
A Mist Went Up
Job 28:3 Translation
There is a description of the core accretion model in the Hebrew text of Job 28:3. We make a systematic survey of the text, and bring forth this meaning.
The Hebrew Couplet
The basic building block of Hebrew poetry is the couplet (also called a distich or bicolon), which consists of two contiguous lines related to each other by form and by content.
Gloom of the underworld: אֹ֣פֶל – ophel
It's surrounded by stones in thick darkness. What darkness? The gloom of the underworld, sheol, the underworld realm of the dead. The deep places of the Earth.
A stone: אֶ֖בֶן – eben
Generally; the common stone of the field; a stone which may be thrown with the hand.
Surround: חוֹקֵ֑ר – chagar
The hollow place or the inside of a chariot; also of an altar where the fire is kept. Mass is surrounded by the hollow interior of the Earth where there's fire?
He, she, it: ה֣וּא – hu or hi
It, referring back to the subject of Part A of the couplet in Job 28:3, is either mass or time.
March 18th
After the crucifixion Jesus descended into the lower parts of the Earth. He went there to gather the souls of the Old Testament saints who were awaiting his coming.
February 5th
Job 28:3 is an odd passage in the sense that the wide variety of English translations bear little resemblance to each other. WHY? on Earth would that be? It's a poem about the core accretion model of planet formation.
February 4th
We (me and the Holy spirit) connect the phrases “established the world,” and “set fast the mountains,” with sinking down. This was the second Hebrew gravity concept that we found in the context of the second day of creation. Now we have nine.