Job 28:1

Job 28:1

Job’s Discourse on Wisdom

1 “Surely there is a mine for silver,
And a place where gold is refined.

2 Iron is taken from the¹ earth,
And copper is smelted from ore.

3 Man puts an end to darkness,
And searches every recess
For ore in the darkness and the shadow of death.

4 He breaks open a shaft away from people;
In places forgotten by feet
They hang far away from men;
They swing to and fro.

5 As for the earth, from it comes bread,
But underneath it is turned up as by fire;

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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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