Job 28:5

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

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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...
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, wh...
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...
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 mimmenn...
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 co...
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 t...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

As it were fire] RV 'as it were by fire,' a reference to mining operations. 7. A path ] the miner's tunnel.
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 perp...
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

(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 st...
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 cas...
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...
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...
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

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, whic...
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...
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 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

Man's Foolish Search for Riches
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, on its surface the cultivated fields yield grain for man's food; and under it, by contrast, it is turned...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

⁵ As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

Related Commentaries of Job 28:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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

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

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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