Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 28:1-28
XXIII.CHORAL INTERLUDEJob 28:1-28THE controversy at length closed, the poet breaks into a chant of the quest of Wisdom. It can hardly be supposed to have been uttered or sung by Job. But if we may go so far as to imagine a chorus after the manner of the Greek dramas, this ode would fitly come as a choral descant reflecting on the vain attempts made alike by Job and by his friends to penetrate the secrets of Divine providence. How poor and unsatisfying is all that has been said. To fathom the... read more
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 28:1-28
Job 28:1 'In the centre of the world-whirlwind,' says Carlyle in the first part of Past and Present (chap. 11.), 'verily now as in the oldest days, dwells and speaks a God. The great soul of the world is just. O brother, can it be needful now, at this late epoch of experience, after eighteen centuries of Christian preaching for one thing, to remind thee of such a fact.' Sans-culottism will burn much; but what is incombustible it will not burn. Fear not Sans-culottism; recognize it for what it... read more