Job 28:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. ”

Job 28:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread - That is, it produces food, or the materials for bread. The idea of Job seems to be, that it was proof of great wisdom and skill on the part of man that...
Job 28:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

[As for] the earth, out of it cometh (e) bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. (e) That is, come and underneath is brimstone or coal, which easily conceives fire.
Job 28:5 - 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...
Job 28:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. The earth, out of it cometh bread - Or the earth, ממנה mimmennah, from itself, by its own vegetative power, it s...
Job 28:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

As for the earth, out of it, &c.— By means of it. Heath; who thinks that the latter part of the verse refers to the bituminous sulphureous countries in the east; the subversion of which produ...
Job 28:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. Its fertile surface yields food; and yet 'beneath it is turned up as it were by fire.' So Pliny ('Natural H...
Job 28:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Mystery of Divine Wisdom In this famous chapter Job declares that Wisdom—that is, the principle of the divine government of the world—is a mystery not to be solved by man. Man's wisdom lies in...
Job 28:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As for the earth... — While the ploughman and the reaper till and gather the fruits of the earth on its surface, the miner far below maintains perpetual fires, as also does the volcanic mountain, w...
Job 28:5 - 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...
Job 28:5 - 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...
Job 28:5 - 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...
Job 28:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(2) Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. (3) He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. (4) The...
Job 28:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread ,.... That is, bread corn, or corn of which bread is made particularly wheat; which falling, or being cast into the earth, rises up and brings forth fruit,...
Job 28:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 28:5 [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. Ver. 5. As for the earth, out of it cometh bread ] That is, grain. Alma Tellus, plentifully yielde...
Job 28:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread Out of the surface of the earth man gets herbs and corn, and other kinds of food for his sustenance: and under it is turned up, as it were, fire Lime, to...
Job 28:5 - 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...
Job 28:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Extent of Human Discoveries. B. C. 1520. 1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a...
Job 28:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Out of it; out of the upper parts of the earth. Bread; bread-corn, or other food for man's use. Under it; either, 1. Under the same earth, which either at the same time yields bread out of its...
Job 28:5 - 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...
Job 28:5 - 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...
Job 28:5 - 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...
Job 28:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Man's Foolish Search for Riches
Job 28:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 28:13 ; Ezekiel 28:14 ; Genesis 1:11 ; Genesis 1:12 ; Genesis 1:29 ; Isaiah 28:25-29 ; Psalms 104:14 ; Psalms 104:15
Job 28:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fire — Coals, and brimstone, and other materials of fire. Unless this refer, as some suppose, to a central fire.

Job 28:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 28:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 28:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 28:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 28:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 28:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 28:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 28:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 28:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 28:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 28:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 28:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 28:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 28:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 28:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 28:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 28:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 28:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 28:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 28:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 28:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 28:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 28:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 28:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes