Job 28:1
Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
In Context
2Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.
Cross References
Genesis 23:15My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but what is this? bury thy dead.
1 Kings 7:48And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the leaves of proposition should be set:
1 Chronicles 29:2And I with all my ability have prepared the expenses for the house of my God. Gold for vessels of gold, and silver for vessels of silver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood: and onyx stones, and stones like alabaster, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble of Paros in great abundance.
Proverbs 17:3As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.
Isaiah 48:10Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.
Malachi 3:2And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb:
Matthew Henry on Job 28:1
The strain of this chapter is very unlike the rest of this book. Job forgets his sores, and all his sorrows, and talks like a philosopher or a virtuoso. Here is a great deal both of natural and moral philosophy in this discourse; but the question is, How does it come in here? Doubtless it was not merely for an amusement, or diversion from the controversy; though, if it had been only so, perhaps it would not have been much amiss. When disputes grow hot, better lose the question than lose our temper. But this is… Read the whole commentary →