Job 28

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

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:1

Job 28:1 , Job 28:12-13 , Job 28:20-28 This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two sections being terminated by this question, with a slight variety of statement: "Whence then cometh wisdom?" and the last by the result of the investigation. I. The first of these sections is occupied with the abstruseness and marvellousness of human discoveries. Job speaks of the discovery of natural objects gems for the monarch's brow, metals for the husbandman, minerals for the physician... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:12

Job 28:12 , Job 28:28 Man's interests and activities find their highest inspiration in culture and religion. The relations which these sides of human action may bear to each other can never be of slight importance. Some maintain that they are antagonistic. It is said, the ages of faith are not the times of intelligence; learning causes religion to dwindle. If this be so, it is indeed strange that history should furnish us with repeated illustrations of what we may almost term a law of the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:12-13

Job 28:1 , Job 28:12-13 , Job 28:20-28 This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two sections being terminated by this question, with a slight variety of statement: "Whence then cometh wisdom?" and the last by the result of the investigation. I. The first of these sections is occupied with the abstruseness and marvellousness of human discoveries. Job speaks of the discovery of natural objects gems for the monarch's brow, metals for the husbandman, minerals for the physician... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:20-28

Job 28:1 , Job 28:12-13 , Job 28:20-28 This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two sections being terminated by this question, with a slight variety of statement: "Whence then cometh wisdom?" and the last by the result of the investigation. I. The first of these sections is occupied with the abstruseness and marvellousness of human discoveries. Job speaks of the discovery of natural objects gems for the monarch's brow, metals for the husbandman, minerals for the physician... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:28

Job 28:28 I. Wisdom is not learning. A great part of what his contemporaries admired in Solomon consisted of the accumulated mass of facts with which his memory was stored. Yet it is an observation we are constantly forced to make how much a man may know and yet what a fool he may be. That Solomon, for instance, with all his wisdom, was a wise ruler, we have not the slightest reason to suppose. The hasty reader is so impressed with all that is told of his magnificence that he often fails to... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Job 28:28

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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 28:1-28

Chapter 28Now, Job said, turning now to a different vein of thought, he said, "Now, there are places where gold is discovered and silver is discovered, and iron and brass, men dig the shafts, they follow the vein of gold and so forth. And they mine these things out of the earth. He digs, overturns the rocks, digs his caves. It's places that the birds don't know. The vultures haven't seen it. But he follows down through the vein, finding the gold, the silver and all."But where shall wisdom be... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:1-28

Job 28:2 . Brass is molten, melted out of ores of zinc, lapis calaminaris, light perforated ores, found on Mendip hills in Somerset, Derbyshire, and other places. Job 28:4 . The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant. Rumpit alveum de cum pede montis; words equivalent to the text of Moses. “The fountains of the great deep were broken up.” Numerous are the proofs which the book of Job exhibits, that he and Moses, the prince of Hebrew prophets, derived knowledge from the same traditions.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:1

Job 28:1A place for gold where they fine it.Refining the gold“There is a place for the gold where they fine it.” This line from the Book of Job--so strong in its monosyllables--describes a spiritual as well as a chemical process. Over and over again in the Bible godly character is described by the happy simile of gold. It would be easy to run out the points of resemblance. All nations, from the polished to the savage, have agreed in regarding it the most beautiful of metals. It typifies the... read more

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

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:1

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:12

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:12-13

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:20-28

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 28:28

Scofield's Reference Notes - Job 28:28

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 28:1-28

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 28:1-28

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:1

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