Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
JOB'S SPEECH CONTINUED. (Job 28:1-28)
vein—a mine, from which it goes forth, Hebrew, "is dug."
place for gold—a place where gold may be found, which men refine. Not as English Version, "A place—where," (Malachi 3:3). Contrasted with gold found in the bed and sand of rivers, which does not need refining; as the gold dug from a mine does. Golden ornaments have been found in Egypt, of the times of Joseph.
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