| Job 28:1 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Surely there is a mine for silver And a place where they refine gold. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | "There is a place where silver is mined and a place where gold is refined.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. |
| ASV: | Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine. |
| BBE: | Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out. |
| DBY: | Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine; |
| ERV: | Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine. |
| JPS: | For there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine. |
| WBS: | Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. |
| WEB: | "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine. |
| YLT: | Surely there is for silver a source, And a place for the gold they refine; |
| Job 28:1 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 27:23 "Men will clap their hands at him And will hiss him from his place.
Job 28:2 "Iron is taken from the dust, And copper is smelted from rock. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, {a} and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].
(a) His purpose is to declare that man may attain in this world to various secrets of nature, but man is never able to comprehend the wisdom of God. |
| WES: | 28:1 Surely - Job having in the last chapter discoursed of God's various providences toward wicked men, and shewed that God doth sometimes, for a season, give them prosperity, but afterwards calls them to a sad account, and having shewed that God doth sometimes prosper the wicked all their days, so they live and die without any visible token of God's displeasure, when on the contrary, good men are exercised with many calamities; and perceiving that his friends were, scandalized at these methods of Divine providence, and denied the thing, because they could not understand the reason of such dispensations: in this chapter he declares that this is one of the depths of Divine wisdom, not discoverable by any mortal man, and that although men had some degree of wisdom whereby they could search out many hidden things, as the veins of silver, and gold, yet this was a wisdom of an higher nature, and out of man's reach. The caverns of the earth he may discover, but not the counsels of heaven. |
| MHC: | 28:1-11 Job maintained that the dispensations of Providence were regulated by the highest wisdom. To confirm this, he showed of what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may make themselves masters. The caverns of the earth may be discovered, but not the counsels of Heaven. Go to the miners, thou sluggard in religion, consider their ways, and be wise. Let their courage and diligence in seeking the wealth that perishes, shame us out of slothfulness and faint-heartedness in labouring for the true riches. How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! How much easier, and safer! Yet gold is sought for, but grace neglected. Will the hopes of precious things out of the earth, so men call them, though really they are paltry and perishing, be such a spur to industry, and shall not the certain prospect of truly precious things in heaven be much more so? |
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