CONTENTS Job's discourse is still prosecuted through this Chapter. The man of Uz makes many striking observations in the display of the divine glory. Job 28:1 (1) В¶ Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. If I do not greatly mistake, here is much of JESUS... [ Continue Reading ]
(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 flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, th... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? This is a sweet verse, and a question involving in it everything important. What wisdom can it be supposed Job means? Not human wisdom, or the discovery of things around. For Job had before laid it down, that the vein of... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. (14) В¶ The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. (15) It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. (16) It cannot be valued with the gold of O... [ Continue Reading ]
(20) В¶ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? (21) Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. (22) Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. (23) God understandeth the way thereof, and he knowet... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS PRECIOUS LORD JESUS! art thou not the wisdom of GOD, and the power of GOD, for salvation to everyone that believed? And hath not every child of thine, who hath found thee, discovered that wisdom, whose value the topaz of Ethiopia, and all the gold of Peru, could not be compared to? And h... [ Continue Reading ]