Job 28:1 (BSB)
“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
Commentary on Job 28:1
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 28:1-11: Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and industrious searches, make themselves masters of.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 28:1: Surely there is a vein for the silver,.... Silver is mentioned first, not because the most valuable, for gold is preferable to it, as brass is to iron, and yet iron is mentioned first in Job 28:2; but because silver might be first known, or was first in use, especially in the coinage of money; we read of pieces of silver, or shekels of silver...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 28:1: Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it]. (a) His purpose is to declare that man may attain in this world to various secrets of nature, but man is never able to comprehend the wisdom of God.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 28:1-4: Job 28:1-4 1 For there is a mine for the silver, And a place for gold which they fine. 2 Iron is taken out of the dust, And he poureth forth stone as copper. 3 He hath made an end of darkness, And he searcheth all extremities For the stone of darkness and of the shadow of death.