Job 28:1
“There are silver mines and places where gold is refined.
Free Bible Version
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 extracted from the earth and copper is smelted from its ore.
Cross References
Genesis 23:15“My lord, please listen to me. The land is worth four hundred pieces of silver. But what's that between us? Go and bury your dead.”
1 Kings 7:48Solomon also had made all the items for the Temple of the Lord: the golden altar; the golden table where the Bread of the Presence was placed;
1 Chronicles 29:2Using all my means I have provided for the house of my God—gold for the articles made of gold, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood; onyx stones and stones for settings: turquoise, different colored stones, every kind of precious stone; and plenty of marble.
Proverbs 17:3A crucible tests silver, and a furnace tests gold, but the Lord tests the attitude of mind.
Isaiah 48:10Look how I've refined you, but not like silver—I chose you in the furnace of trouble.
Malachi 3:2Who can survive the day when he comes? Who can stand before him when he appears? For he will be like a blazing furnace that refines metal, or like the strong alkali that cleanses stains.
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 →