Job 28:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Surely there is a veina for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. ”

• Job 28:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Surely there is a vein for silver - Margin, “mine” Coverdale renders this, “There are places where silver is molten.” Prof. Lee renders it, “There is an outlet for the silver,” and supposes it me...

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• Job 28:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Surely there is a vein for the silver, (a) and a place for gold [where] they fine [it]. (a) His purpose is to declare that man may attain in this world to various secrets of nature, but man is never...

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• Job 28:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 28. Here again we come to a critical question. It is difficult to fit this chapter into the argument, whether Job 27:7-23 is given to Job or to Zophar. It is a widely accepted conclusion of s...

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• Job 28:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Surely. This is the continuation of Zophar's last address. Not Job's words. Compare Job 35:16 ; Job 38:2 . They are opposed to his own words, and confirm those of his friends. Compare his second...

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• Job 28:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it . Surely there is a vein for the silver - This chapter is the oldest and finest piece of natural history in the world...

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• Job 28:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Job observes, that man, though he can find out the hidden veins of silver, gold, iron, and brass, yet cannot find out wisdom: God hath taught him that wisdom consists in the fear of the Lord....

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• Job 28:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. In Job 27:1-23 Job had tacitly admitted that the statement of the friends was often true, that God vindicated...

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• Job 28:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Surely] RM 'For.' Perhaps the question in Job 28:12 and Job 28:20 , 'Where shall Wisdom be found?', 'Whence then cometh Wisdom?' may be understood at the beginning of this verse. It has even bee...

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• Job 28:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  XXVIII. (1) Surely there is a vein for the silver. — In this chapter Job draws out a magnificent contrast between human skill and ingenuity and Divine wisdom. The difficulty to the ordinary read...

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• Job 28:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXIII. CHORAL INTERLUDE Job 28:1-28 THE controversy at length closed, the poet breaks into a chant of the quest of Wisdom. It can hardly be supposed to have been uttered or sung by Job. But if...

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• Job 28:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Pearl of Great Price Job 28:1-28 A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age. Job compares it with the search of the miner for the hidden treasures of the earth, J...

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• Job 28:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In a fine passage Job now discussed the question of wisdom. What was supremely lacking in his friends' dealing with him was wisdom to understand. As an introduction to the main statement of his argum...

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• Job 28:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS Job's discourse is still prosecuted through this Chapter. The man of Uz makes many striking observations in the display of the divine glory. Job 28:1 (1) В¶ Surely there is a vein for t...

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• Job 28:1 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  A BRILLIANT CHAPTER ‘Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.… But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?’ etc. Job 28:1 ;...

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• Job 28:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Surely there is a vein for the silver ,.... Silver is mentioned first, not because the most valuable, for gold is preferable to it, as brass is to iron, and yet iron is mentioned first in Job 28:2...

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• Job 28:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it]. Ver. 1. Surely there is a vein for the silver ] For there is a vein, &c., so Tremellius readeth it. But here...

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• Job 28:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Surely , &c. Job, having confuted his three friends on their own principles, in the last two and some of the preceding Chapter s, here falls into a kind of soliloquy on the difficulty of obtaini...

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• Job 28:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  EARTH'S MEASURED TREASURES (vv.1-6) Job has spoken of the folly of wicked men. Now he shows that which stands in beautiful contrast to Chapter 27. The language here is magnificent, as Job consid...

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• Job 28:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Extent of Human Discoveries. B. C. 1520.       1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a...

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• Job 28:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  JOB CHAPTER 28 The power and wisdom of God in his works of nature, Job 28:1-11 . A knowledge and wisdom answering this is not found in man, nor to be bought or acquired, Job 28:12-21 . Death...

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• Job 28:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOM The place occupied by this chapter one peculiar to itself. Its connection with the preceding or succeeding portions of the book by no means obvious. Appears scarcely...

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• Job 28:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 28:1 , Job 28:12-13 ; Job 28:20-28 This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two sections being terminated by this question, with a slight variety of statement: "Whence...

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• Job 28:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 28:2 . Brass is molten, melted out of ores of zinc, lapis calaminaris, light perforated ores, found on Mendip hills in Somerset, Derbyshire, and other places. Job 28:4 . The flood breaketh...

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• Job 28:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A place for gold where they fine it. Refining the gold “There is a place for the gold where they fine it.” This line from the Book of Job--so strong in its monosyllables--describes a spiritual...

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• Job 28:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 28:1-18 The connection of this chapter with the preceding is somewhat obscure. Probably we are to regard Job as led to see, even while he is justifying God's ways with sinner...

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• Job 28:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Surely there is a vein for the silver, a place prepared by the Creator where it is found, and a place for gold where they fine it, where men refine gold, after the ore has been taken out of the gro...

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• Job 28:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 29:2-5 ; 1 Kings 10:21 ; 1 Kings 7:48-50 ; 1 Peter 1:7 ; Genesis 2:11 ; Genesis 2:12 ; Genesis 23:15 ; Genesis 24:22 ; Isaiah 48:10 ; Malachi 3:2 ; Malachi 3:3 ; Proverbs 17:...

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• Job 28:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Surely — Job having in the last chapter discoursed of God's various providences toward wicked men, and shewed that God doth sometimes, for a season, give them prosperity, but afterwards calls them...

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