Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 28:1-28
1. Job’s discourse on God’s wisdom ch. 28Because the speech in this chapter is more soliloquy than dialogue, some scholars have concluded that someone other than Job spoke it: Zophar, Bildad, or God. One writer argued for it’s being a speech by none of the characters, but a composition by the storyteller in which he expressed his own point of view. [Note: Andersen, pp. 222-29.] The subject matter, however, is in harmony with what Job had said previously (cf. Job 9:10-11; Job 12:13; Job 17:10;... read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 28:18
18. Red coral ( :-). pearls—literally, "what is frozen." Probably crystal; and :- will then be glass. rubies—UMBREIT translates "pearls" (see Lamentations 4:1; Proverbs 3:15). The Urim and Thummim, the means of consulting God by the twelve stones on the high priest's breastplate, "the stones of the sanctuary" (Proverbs 3:15- :), have their counterpart in this chapter; the precious stones symbolizing the "light" and "perfection" of the divine wisdom. read more