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Job 28:5-6
The soil where plants grow seems so ordinary. But nothing is ordinary underground. A man needs a torch to see anything. But, with his torch, the man may find precious things.
The soil where plants grow seems so ordinary. But nothing is ordinary underground. A man needs a torch to see anything. But, with his torch, the man may find precious things.
Verse Job 28:5. _THE EARTH, OUT OF IT COMETH BREAD_] Or the earth, ממנה _mimmennah, from itself_, by its own vegetative power, _it sends_ _out bread_, or the _corn_ of which bread is made. _AND UNDE...
AS FOR THE EARTH, OUT OF IT COMETH BREAD - That is, it produces food, or the materials for bread. The idea of Job seems to be, that it was proof of great wisdom and skill on the part of man that he ha...
CHAPTER 28 _ 1. The treasures of the earth (Job 28:1)_ 2. The better treasures (Job 28:7) 3. God knoweth the way and the true wisdom (Job 28:23)...
JOB 28. Here again we come to a critical question. It is difficult to fit this chapter into the argument, whether Job 27:7 is given to Job or to Zophar. It is a widely accepted conclusion of scholars...
Description of mining operations. _he setteth_ To prevent ambiguity it is better to translate, MAN setteth, or, MEN SET. The phrase "setteth an end to darkness" hardly refers to the light shed by the...
The same idea of the distance from the life of men and the unnaturalness of the miner's work is pursued in the fine contrast between the peaceful, cultivated and fruitful face of the earth above and t...
AS FOR THE EARTH, OUT OF IT, &C.— _By means of it._ Heath; who thinks that the latter part of the verse refers to the bituminous sulphureous countries in the east; the subversion of which produced the...
C. SOURCE OF TRUE WISDOM (Job 28:1-28) 1. Man finds hidden treasures of the earth, as in mining. (Job 28:1-11) TEXT 28:1-11 1 SURELY THERE IS A MINE FOR SILVER, And a place for gold which they ref...
_AS FOR THE EARTH, OUT OF IT COMETH BREAD: AND UNDER IT IS TURNED UP AS IT WERE FIRE._ Its fertile surface yields food; and yet 'beneath it is turned up as it were by fire.' So Pliny ('Natural History...
THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE WISDOM In this famous chapter Job declares that Wisdom—that is, the principle of the divine government of the world—is a mystery not to be solved by man. Man's wisdom lies in fea...
AS IT WERE FIRE] RV 'as it were by fire,' a reference to mining operations. 7. A PATH] the miner's tunnel....
AS FOR THE EARTH... — While the ploughman and the reaper till and gather the fruits of the earth on its surface, the miner far below maintains perpetual fires, as also does the volcanic mountain, with...
אֶ֗רֶץ מִמֶּ֥נָּה יֵֽצֵא ־לָ֑חֶם וְ֝ תַחְתֶּ֗יהָ...
XXIII. CHORAL INTERLUDE Job 28:1 THE controversy at length closed, the poet breaks into a chant of the quest of Wisdom. It can hardly be supposed to have been uttered or sung by Job. But if we may g...
THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE Job 28:1 A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age. Job compares it with the search of the miner for the hidden treasures of the earth, Job 28:1. T...
In a fine passage Job now discussed the question of wisdom. What was supremely lacking in his friends' dealing with him was wisdom to understand. As an introduction to the main statement of his argume...
[As for] the earth, out of it cometh (e) bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. (e) That is, come and underneath is brimstone or coal, which easily conceives fire....
_In its, &c. Hebrew and Septuagint, "and under it is turned up as it were fire," which lies in it. (Haydock) --- Fire, like Sodom; to which event Job alludes, chap. xxii. 20. (Calmet) --- The furnaces...
(2) Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. (3) He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. (4) The...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
[AS FOR] THE EARTH, OUT OF IT COMETH BREAD,.... That is, bread corn, or corn of which bread is made particularly wheat; which falling, or being cast into the earth, rises up and brings forth fruit, an...
Job 28:5 [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. Ver. 5. _As for the earth, out of it cometh bread_] That is, grain. Alma Tellus, plentifully yieldeth t...
Job. 28:5. "Under it is turned up as it were fire" - _i.e., _ that which shines like fire, as in Deuteronomy 33:2. The Law of God, because it, as it were, shines and gives light, is called a "fiery La...
_As for the earth, out of it cometh bread_ Out of the surface of the earth man gets herbs and corn, and other kinds of food for his sustenance: _and under it is turned up, as it were, fire_ Lime, to m...
MAN'S FOOLISH SEARCH FOR RICHES...
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, on its surface the cultivated fields yield grain for man's food; AND UNDER IT, by contrast, IT IS TURNED UP AS IT WERE FIRE, cut up into shafts and galleries,...
EARTH'S MEASURED TREASURES (vv.1-6) Job has spoken of the folly of wicked men. Now he shows that which stands in beautiful contrast to Chapter 27. The language here is magnificent, as Job considers...
1-11 Job maintained that the dispensations of Providence were regulated by the highest wisdom. To confirm this, he showed of what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may make themselves masters....
OUT OF IT; out of the upper parts of the earth. Bread; bread-corn, or other food for man's use. UNDER IT; either, 1. Under the same earth, which either at the same time yields bread out of its upper,...
Job 28:5 earth H776 comes H3318 (H8799) bread H3899 up H2015 (H8738) fire H784 out of it -...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The value of divine wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: To be truly religious is to be truly wise. If we know God, His wisdom will appear in the prac...
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 fr...
_JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOM_ The 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...
EXPOSITION JOB 28:1 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),...
Now, 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 ve...
Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 28:14; Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:12; Genesis 1:29
Fire — Coals, and brimstone, and other materials of fire. Unless this refer, as some suppose, to a central fire....