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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:23-24

Job 28:23-24. God understandeth the way thereof God alone knows and can make known the nature and properties, the rules and measures, the plans and designs, the operations and effects, of this wisdom which we inquire after; or, the methods which he takes, in the management of all affairs in the world, together with its reasons, and the ends he has in view in them. And he knoweth the place thereof Where it dwells, which is only in his own mind. For he looketh to the ends of the earth He,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:25

Job 28:25. To make the weight for the winds His wisdom it is which sets things in such exact order, and gives them such just measures, that the wind cannot blow but in those proportions which he hath prescribed. He appoints to every wind that blows its season, its degree, its bounds, when, and where, and how much, and how long, each shall blow. He only knows why he doth these things. He instanceth in some few of God’s works, and those which seem to be most trivial and uncertain, that... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:26

Job 28:26. When At the first creation, he settled that course and order which should afterward be continued; he made a decree for the rain An appointment, and, as it were, a statute law, that it should fall upon the earth, and that in such times, and places, and proportions, and manner, as he should think fit, either for correction or mercy, as Elihu speaks, Job 37:13. And a way for the lightning of the thunder A path, or egress, for it out of the thick cloud in which it was shut... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:27

Job 28:27. Then did he see it Namely, wisdom, which is the subject of the present discourse. This God saw, not without, in any creature formed by him, but within himself; he looked upon it in his own eternal mind, as the rule by which he would proceed in the creation and government of all things. And declared it Made it evident, first to angels, and then to man, when he created this lower world; that is, discovered by his works the deep wisdom which lay hid before in his own breast. He... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:28

Job 28:28. And Or, rather, but, unto man For this is added by way of opposition, to show that man’s wisdom doth not lie in a curious inquiry into, or an exact knowledge of God’s secret counsels, and the ways of his providence, but in things of quite another nature; he said Unto Adam, in the day when he was created, and in and with him to all his posterity: that is, God spake it partly, and at first inwardly, to the mind of man, in which he wrote this with his own finger; and partly... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 28:1-28

The search for true wisdom (28:1-28)At this point there is a pause in the story while the writer inserts a poem on the pricelessness of true wisdom. The poem does not state who composed it, though it could have been spoken by Job during the period of quiet that followed the last of the friends’ speeches. The theme of the poem is that, though people go to much trouble to find the riches hidden in the earth, they are not able to find the far greater riches of true wisdom.Mining is an occupation... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 28:1

Surely. This is the continuation of Zophar's last address. Not Job's words. Compare Job 35:16 ; Job 38:2 . They are opposed to his own words, and confirm those of his friends. Compare his second address, Job 20:1-29 . is = doth exist. vein = outlet: i.e. mine, or shaft. read more

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