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 28:9
9. rock—flint. He puts forth his hand to cleave the hardest rock. by the roots—from their foundations, by undermining them. read more