Job 28:1

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 17:3; Proverbs 27:21; Psalms 12:6; Zechariah 13:9

Related Commentaries of 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, “Ther...
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 wo...
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...
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...
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 oldes...
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 t...
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 o...
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 understo...
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 mys...
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...
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 su...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 i...
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 i...
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...
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 int...
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 2...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Extent of Human Discoveries. B. C. 1520. ...
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...
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...
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 ques...
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, a...
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 s...
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,...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Man's Foolish Search for Riches
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...

¹ Surely there is a veina for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

Related Commentaries of Job 28:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 28:1