約伯記 28:21 RCUVTS

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

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 28:12-28

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 28:20-21

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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 28:21

Job 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Ver. 21. Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living ] As hath been before set forth, Job 28:13 . They that see most into it see but in part, and must needs say, that the greatest part of their knowledge is the least part of their ignorance, Maxima pars eorum quae scimus est minima pars eorum quae nescimus. Something they know of his revealed will, but nothing at all of his secret. Whereunto we... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 28:21

hid: Psalms 49:3, Psalms 49:4, Matthew 11:25, Matthew 13:17, Matthew 13:35, 1 Corinthians 2:7-2 Samuel :, Colossians 2:3 from the fowls: Job 28:7 air: or, heaven Reciprocal: Job 28:13 - in the land Job 37:19 - we read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 28:21

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Hid — The line and plummet of human reason, can never fathom the abyss of the Divine counsels. Who can account for the maxims, measures and methods of God's government? Let us then be content, not to know the future events of providence, 'till time discover them: and not to know the secret reasons of providence, 'till eternity brings them to light. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 28:21

21. The fowls of the air To their acuteness of vision and wondrous habits of migration may be due the widespread ascription to them of superior wisdom. In all their wide range of flight and vision they have never seen Wisdom’s abode. read more