Job 28

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:6

Job 28:6And it hath dust of gold.How to turn everything to goldThis chapter in Job describes with all a poet’s force and beauty the miner’s life in its loneliness, its dangers, and its triumphs. In those old days men endured the toil, and faced the dangers, to win the hidden gold, or precious stones. And from then till now men have ever been eager to find gold. The passion for gold is one of the strongest in the human heart. It has done much to shape the world’s history. It has given us new... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:10

Job 28:10His eye seeth every precious thing. Every precious thingThese words refer to the miner who digs for the treasure hidden in the earth. He finds the vein of silver, and the place for the gold. But if man’s eye sees the precious things, let us think how God sees them.I. He sees the promise and possibility. There are many things of which, at a glance, men can see the worth; things that proclaim themselves loudly. Some things only the genius can see. The gold is in the quartz, but... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:11-12

Job 28:11-12The thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. The religious uses and limitations of scienceI. The religious uses of science. “The thing that is hid man bringeth forth to light.” Some think there is nothing but antagonism between science and religion. It is obvious that the science which traces out the mind of God in nature ought to be affianced to the faith which discerns the inner grace of His heart, and will, and character.1. Science is helping to create a perfect environment... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:12-28

Job 28:12-28But where shall wisdom be found?The speculative difficulties of an inquiring intellect solved by the heart of practical pietyTwo things are prominently developed in this chapter--Man’s power and his weakness; his power to supply the material necessities of his nature, and his weakness to supply his mental cravings.I. Every inquiring intellect has difficulties which it is anxious to remove. Two classes of intellectual difficulties--those connected with the physical realm of being,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:17

Job 28:17And the crystal cannot equal it.The crystal exactIn the first place I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in exactness. That shapeless mass of crystal against which you accidentally dashed your foot is laid out with more exactness than any earthly city. There are six styles of crystallisation, and all of them divinely ordained. Every crystal has mathematical precision. God’s geometry reaches through it, and it is a square, or it is a rectangle, or it is a rhomboid or, in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:20-21

Job 28:20-21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living. Mystery and dogmaIt is the dogmatism of science that stands in the way of the much-needed reconciliation, even more than the dogmatism of theology. Nothing is so hostile to mystery as dogmatism. The sense of mystery is the sense of vastness, indefiniteness, grandeur. The moment you come with your dogmas to measure and explain everything, that moment the mystery, the vastness, the grandeur, begin to vanish. Rightly understood, the facts... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:28

Job 28:28Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom.The wisdom of being religious“To fear the Lord” and to “depart from evil” are phrases which the Scripture useth in a very great latitude to express to us the sum of religion and the whole of our duty.I. It is usual to express the whole of religion by some eminent principle or part of it. The great principles of religion are knowledge, faith, remembrance, love, and fear. The sum of all religion is often expressed by some eminent part of it.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 28:1

Job 28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it]. Ver. 1. Surely there is a vein for the silver ] For there is a vein, &c., so Tremellius readeth it. But here is no reason rendered of God’s heavy judgments on the wicked, last discoursed of; but the unsearchableness of God’s wisdom, and the righteousness of his proceedings asserted, while some bad men prosper, and some good men suffer. The reason whereof lieth hid (as a river that runneth... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 28:2

Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone. Ver. 2. Iron is taken out of the earth ] That is, out of the irony vein, which is said to be a drossy kind of earth, not sufficiently digested and hardened to make a stone. Of the generation of these inferior metals, see Pliny and the chemists; who yet are not to be hearkened unto when they tell us, that by their art they can turn these baser metals into gold, since they are here distinguished by their place,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 28:3

Job 28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. Ver. 3. He setteth an end to darkness ] i.e. He (viz. the miner) brings light down into the dark entrails of the earth, and fetches out those metals that had long lain hid there, and that else would never have been beheld. Though Nature hath taken pleasure, as one speaketh, to hide all these metals, yet industry provideth man of certain marks for to discover them, and... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:6

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:10

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:11-12

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:12-28

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:17

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:20-21

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 28:28

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 28:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 28:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 28:3

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