Job 28:17

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

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 28:17

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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 28:17

Job 28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold. Ver. 17. The gold and the crystal cannot equal it ] For crystal some read diamond, others adamant. It hath its name from its purity and transparency. Junius rendereth it therefore nitidissima gemma. It seems to be, saith one, the last attempt of nature, and makes us find heaven on earth. And the exchange of it shall not be for jewels (or vessels) of fine gold] Of phez gold, so... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 28:17

crystal: Ezekiel 1:22, Revelation 4:6, Revelation 21:11, Revelation 22:1 jewels: or, vessels read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 28:17

17. Crystal Probably glass. The manufacture of glass is of great antiquity, as is evident from the paintings at Beni Hassan, of more than 3,800 years ago, which still represent the process of glass-blowing. The Egyptians had the secret of introducing gold between layers of glass; also of working Mosaic in glass of so delicate a pattern as to have required the use of a magnifying lens. (WILKINSON, P.A., 2:61.) Glass perfectly transparent was esteemed of extremely high value. Nero is... read more

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