约伯记 28:1-2 CUNPSS

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 28:2

Iron - As has been remarked above, iron was early known, yet probably its common use indicates a more advanced state of civilization than that of gold and silver. The Mexicans were ignorant of the use of iron, though ornaments of gold and silver elegantly worked abounded among them. Iron is less easily discovered than copper, though more abundant, and is worked with more difficulty. Among the ancient nations, copper was in general use long before iron; and arms, vases, statues, and implements... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:1

Job 28:1. Surely, &c. Job, having confuted his three friends on their own principles, in the last two and some of the preceding chapters, here falls into a kind of soliloquy on the difficulty of obtaining true wisdom. His friends had laid claim to it from their great age, and from their knowledge of ancient traditions: see Job 5:27, and Job 8:8-9, and Job 15:9-10, and Job 20:4; but he had shown them of how little importance or signification their conclusions were. Where, then, it became... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:2-3

Job 28:2-3. Iron is taken out of the earth, &c. They invent means to extract iron and brass out of the earth and stone. He setteth an end to darkness, &c. There is no mine so dismally dark, but there is some man or other who will undertake to work in it, and find out a method of conveying light into it: and searcheth out all perfection He searches to the very bottom of it, and finds out all the valuable treasures contained therein; the stones of darkness, and the shadow of... 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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 28:2

earths = dust. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 28:1

JOB 28WISDOM - THE GREATEST TREASURE AND HARDEST TO FINDAfter a review of the reasons and speculations why some scholars would refer this chapter to Zophar, Hesser wrote that, "There is therefore no good reason for assigning this chapter to Zophar."[1] This chapter is a remarkably well-planned and eloquent discussion of the wisdom that comes from God alone. The very beauty of the chapter has led some to label it, "A Choral Interlude,"[2] that somehow got incorporated into the Book of Job.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 28:1

CHAP. XXVIII. Job observes, that man, though he can find out the hidden veins of silver, gold, iron, and brass, yet cannot find out wisdom: God hath taught him that wisdom consists in the fear of the Lord. Before Christ 1645. Job 28:1. Surely there is a vein for the silver— See the Reflections on the 28th verse, p. 806. This chapter, as it is one of the most beautiful and instructive, so perhaps, we may adds it is the most obscure of the whole book. The subject of it is an inquiry after wisdom:... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 28:2

Job 28:2. And brass is molten out of the stone— And stone, when it is melted, becometh brass. Houbigant. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 28:1

1. vein—a mine, from which it goes forth, Hebrew, "is dug." place for gold—a place where gold may be found, which men refine. Not as English Version, "A place—where," ( :-). Contrasted with gold found in the bed and sand of rivers, which does not need refining; as the gold dug from a mine does. Golden ornaments have been found in Egypt, of the times of Joseph. read more