Job 28

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:2-11

(2) Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. (3) He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. (4) The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. (5) As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. (6) The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. (7)... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:12

(12) But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? This is a sweet verse, and a question involving in it everything important. What wisdom can it be supposed Job means? Not human wisdom, or the discovery of things around. For Job had before laid it down, that the vein of silver was found, and the place of gold. Is it not JESUS that is here folded up in the word Wisdom? The Apostle was commissioned by the HOLY GHOST to tell the church, that CHRIST is the wisdom of... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:13-19

(13) Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. (14) ¶ The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. (15) It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. (16) It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. (17) The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. (18) No mention shall be made of coral, or of... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:20-28

(20) ¶ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? (21) Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. (22) Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. (23) God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. (24) For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; (25) To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. (26) When he made a... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:28

REFLECTIONS PRECIOUS LORD JESUS! art thou not the wisdom of GOD, and the power of GOD, for salvation to everyone that believed? And hath not every child of thine, who hath found thee, discovered that wisdom, whose value the topaz of Ethiopia, and all the gold of Peru, could not be compared to? And hast thou really and truly taught thy people this lesson of wisdom, which all the learning of men, or angels, untaught of thee, never could have discovered? Yes, blessed LORD! though these things are... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:1

Silver. Hebrew, "Surely there is a vein, or mine, for silver." (Haydock) --- The sagacity of man has discovered all these things. Wonderful also is the instinct of animals, ver. 7. Yet wisdom comes from God alone; and those act rashly, who pretend to dive into his counsels in punishing his creatures and ruling the world. (Calmet) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:2

Stone. Protestants, "and brass is molten out of the stone." (Haydock) --- "When brass comes out of the mine it resembles stone, and being mixed with earth is refined in the fire." (Pliny, [Natural History?] xxxvi. 27.) (Menochius) --- All this process would require much ingenuity and time. Tubalcain was a great artist before the deluge; (Genesis iv. 22.) but we cannot tell who were the inventors of these things, though (Calmet) the Greeks have specified the names of some who introduced these... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:3

He (God) hath, &c. (Haydock) --- Darkness, before which these inventions could not be made; (Menochius) or, man has been able to measure the hours of day and night by the shadow of the sun, and by other means. He always strives to perfect his works, and examines with care the mines which lay concealed in the most profound obscurity. (Calmet) --- Precious stones and metals lie the deepest. (Menochius) --- From the consideration of these beautiful works, men ought to raise their minds to... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:4

At. Nations are separated by waters from each other. (Calmet) --- Some, like the Chinese, keep all strangers at a distance. (Haydock) --- But the industry of man breaketh through all barriers. Hebrew, "a river separates a foreign nation forgotten by travellers; but these waters cannot stop man: they flow away." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "The flood breaketh out from the inhabitants, even the waters; forgotten of the foot, they are dried up; they are gone away from men." Septuagint, "Sand cuts... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:5

In its, &c. Hebrew and Septuagint, "and under it is turned up as it were fire," which lies in it. (Haydock) --- Fire, like Sodom; to which event Job alludes, chap. xxii. 20. (Calmet) --- The furnaces to melt various metals have taken the place of corn, and occupy the land. (Menochius) --- Men have extracted bitumen, &c., even from the lake of Sodom. (Pliny, [Natural History?] vii. 15.) --- Nothing escapes them. (Calmet) read more

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:2-11

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:12

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:13-19

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:20-28

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 28:28

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:1

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:2

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:3

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:4

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 28:5

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