Jó 28:7-22 NVIPT

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 28:22

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof - ומות אבדון Abaddon vamaveth , the destroyer, and his offspring death. This is the very name that is given to the devil in Greek letters Αβαδδων , Revelation 9:11 , and is rendered by the Greek word Απολλυων , Apollyon , a word exactly of the same meaning. No wonder death and the devil are brought in here as saying they had heard the fame of wisdom, seeing Job 28:28 ; defines it to be the fear of the Lord, and a... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:1-28

The connection of this chapter with the preceding is somewhat obscure. Probably we are to regard Job as led to see, even while he is justifying God's ways with sinners ( Job 27:8-23 ), how many and how great are the difficulties in the way of forming a single consistent theory of the Divine action, which shall be applicable to all cases. Hence he comes to the conclusion that God is incomprehensible by man and inscrutable; and that it is only given to man to know him sufficiently for his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:1-28

Job's first parable: 3. A discourse upon true wisdom. I. THE WISDOM UNDISCOVERABLE BY HUMAN GENIUS . Among the stupendous efforts of human industry and skill with which Job was acquainted, nothing was better fitted to impress the mind with a sense of man's illimitable daring, resistless might, and wonderful success in searching out all perfection (verse 3), and brining hidden things to light (vet, 11), than the operations of the miner. These, a knowledge of which may have been... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:7

There is a path which no fowl knoweth ; or, his is a path which no bird of prey knoweth (see the Revised Version). The miner's path through the bowels of the earth is intended. And which the vulture's eye hath not seen . The vulture is probably the most keen-sighted of birds, but it cannot even get a glimpse of the subterraneous path which the miner treads. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:8

The lion's whelps have not trodden it ; literally, the sons of the fierce— the whelps of lions, tigers, or leopards may be intended. These beasts would haunt the mountains and penetrate into natural caverns, bat would never adventure themselves in the shafts and adits of miners. Nor the fierce lion passed by it; rather, passed thereby (see the Revised Version). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:9

He putteth forth his hand upon the rock . Our Revisers translate, upon the flinty rock ; while Canon Cook maintains that "the word used means either granite or quartz." Probably Job meant no more than that man does not shrink from attacking any—even the hardest—rock; but will subdue it, and cut his way through it, if he has occasion so to do. He overturneth the mountains by the roots . Herodotus, in describing what he had seen of the Phoenician mining operations in the island of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:10

He cutteth out rivers among the rocks . Some understand this of man's general ability to cut canals and tunnels, and change the course of rivers. But the allusion is more probably to the works undertaken in mines for the carrying off of the water from them. Diodorus says that when subterranean springs were tapped in mines, which threatened to flood them, it was usual to construct ducts, or tunnels, by which the inconvenient liquid might be carried off to a lower level (Diod. Siculus, 5.37. §... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:11

He bindeth the floods from overflowing . This, again, may be either taken generally of man's ability to create dams, dykes, and embankments, whereby the overflow of waters is prevented; or specially of such works when connected with mines, from which it is possible, in some instances, to dam out water that would otherwise interfere with their working. The word translated "overflowing" means probably "weeping," and seems to point to that leakage from the roofs and sides of galleries and adits... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:12

But where shall wisdom be found? "Wisdom is the principal thing," says Solomon ( Proverbs 4:7 ); and again, "It is better to get wisdom than gold" ( Proverbs 16:16 ). But where is it to be found? Job's three friends thought that it dwelt with them ( Job 12:2 ); but this was a mistake, since God reproaches them with their "folly" ( Job 42:8 ). Job does not claim to possess it ( Job 26:3 ); he only desires it. It is his deep conviction that it is only possessed, in the true sense of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:12-28

Here we come on an abrupt change. From human ingenuity and contrivance Job turns to the consideration of "wisdom"—that wisdom which has been defined as "the reason which deals with principles "(Canon Cook). "Where," he asks, "is this to be found?" It is a wholly different thing from cleverness and ingenuity. It inquires into causes and origins, into the ends and purposes of things; it seeks to solve the riddle of the universe. Perfect wisdom can, of course, only dwell with God (verse 23). Man... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 28:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:1-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:1-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 28:12-28

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