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The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 28:1-28

What Is Wisdom? Job 28:0 When Job says "Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it" ( Job 28:1 ), many persons cannot see the connection between this part of the speech and the verses with which the twenty-seventh chapter concludes. The speaker seems to break away entirely from the main current of his discourse and to begin a totally different subject. He does so, however in appearance only and not in reality. The patriarch has been talking about the rich... 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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 28:20-28

20-28 There is a two-fold wisdom; one hid in God, which is secret, and belongs not to us; the other made known by him, and revealed to man. One day's events, and one man's affairs, have such reference to, and so hang one upon another, that He only, to whom all is open, and who sees the whole at one view, can rightly judge of every part. But the knowledge of God's revealed will is within our reach, and will do us good. Let man look upon this as his wisdom, To fear the Lord, and to depart from... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 28:12-28

God Alone The Possessor of True Wisdom. Over against man's foolish quest for vain and unstable riches Job places the wisdom of God, unattainable by the outward seeking and searching of men. v. 12. But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? True wisdom, the understanding of God, the knowledge of the revelation of God, is the highest good of man. v. 13. Man knoweth not the price thereof, no mortal realizes its value for purchase or exchange; neither is it found... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 28:1-28

III. Job alone: His closing address to the vanquished friends. Chap. 27—28a. Renewed asseveration of his innocence, accompanied by a reference to his joy inGod, which had not forsaken him even in the midst of his deepest misery Job 27:1-101 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment;and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;3 all the while my breath is in me,and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;—4 my lips shall not speak... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 28:1-28

the Pearl of Great Price Job 28:1-28 A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age. Job compares it with the search of the miner for the hidden treasures of the earth, Job 28:1-12 . This paragraph should be read in the r.v. The shaft into the earth, the miner’s exile from the cheerful haunts of human life, his exposure to dangers from foul air, water, and the falling-in of the mine, the binding up of the streams, are vividly portrayed. But the miner perseveres through... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 28:1-28

In a fine passage Job now discussed the question of wisdom. What was supremely lacking in his friends' dealing with him was wisdom to understand. As an introduction to the main statement of his argument, he described man's ability to obtain possession of the precious things of the earth. Silver, gold, and iron are mined, and -the description of how man does it is full of beauty. Man opens a shaft. In the midst of his operation he is forgotten by men who pass by. In a path that no bird knows... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 28:1-28

Job 28. Here again we come to a critical question. It is difficult to fit this chapter into the argument, whether Job 27:7-Isaiah : is given to Job or to Zophar. It is a widely accepted conclusion of scholars that the chapter is an independent poem on Wisdom (a very fine one) which has somehow found its way into the text of the Book of Job. In its present form it opens with the word “ For,” marking a connexion with something that has gone before; so that the beginning appears to be lost.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 28:21

Of all living; of all men that live upon the earth. From the fowls of the air: though they fly high, and can see far and well, yet they cannot discern this: men of the most raised understandings cannot discover it. It is to be found no where in this visible world, neither in the upper nor lower parts of it. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 28:1-28

JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOMThe place occupied by this chapter one peculiar to itself. Its connection with the preceding or succeeding portions of the book by no means obvious. Appears scarcely to form a part of the dialogue. Seems, as it stands before us, to have been delivered by Job during a lull in the controversy. Forms a poetical descant on the praises of true wisdom. Job left alone in the field, and now in a much calmer mood, in circumstances to enter on such a subject. Perhaps led to it... read more