Job 28:10
Amid rocks he heweth out canals: and every precious thing doth his eye behold.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
In Context
9To the flinty rock he stretcheth forth his hand; he overturneth the mountains from the root.
Cross References
Proverbs 14:23In all painful labor there is profit; but mere words of the lips [lead] only to want.
Habakkuk 3:9Laid quite bare is thy bow, like severe rods of punishment [goeth forth] thy word, Selah: into rivers thou splittest the earth.
Matthew Henry on Job 28:2-12
Extent of Human Discoveries. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 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 stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as… Read the whole commentary →