Job 28:6
What meaning of the job 28:6 in the Bible?
What does Job 28:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dustc of gold."
What does Job 28:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dustc of gold."
Verse Job 28:6. _THE STONES - THE PLACE OF SAPPHIRES_] In the language of mineralogists, the gangue, matrix, or bed in which the sapphire is found. For a description of this stone, see on Job 28:16....
THE STONES OF IT ARE THE PLACE - Among the stones of the earth sapphires are found. “The situation of the sapphire is in alluvial soil, in the vicinity of rocks, belonging to the secondary floetz trap...
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 28:1. This part of the monologue of Job does not...
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...
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...
_THE STONES OF IT ARE THE PLACE OF SAPPHIRES: AND IT HATH DUST OF GOLD._ Sapphires are found in alluvial soil near rocks and embedded in gneiss. The ancients distinguished two kinds: (1) The real, o...
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...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 28 JOB’S POEM ABOUT WISDOM...
THE STONES OF IT ARE THE PLACE OF SAPPHIRES. — So ingenious is man that he discovereth a place of which the stones are sapphires and the very dust gold, and a path that no bird of prey knoweth, and wh...
מְקֹום ־סַפִּ֥יר אֲבָנֶ֑יהָ וְ עַפְרֹ֖ת זָהָ֣ב לֹֽו׃...
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....
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...
The stones of it [are] the place (f) of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. (f) He alludes to the mines and secrets of nature, which are under the earth, into which neither souls nor beasts can ente...
_Sapphires. The best are found in Media, in the country of the Taphyri, (Ptol.) or Raspires. (Herodotus iii. 94.) --- Gold. This precious metal, like all others, is found in the bowels of the earth, ...
(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...
THE STONES OF IT [ARE] THE PLACE OF SAPPHIRES,.... In some parts of the earth its stones are a quarry of sapphires, put here for all precious stones: this is a most excellent precious stone, of a sky...
The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. Ver. 6. _The stones of it are the place of sapphires_] Which are excellent stones, and, therefore, here joined with gold, _Quo...
_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...
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...
DUST OF GOLD: Or, gold ore...
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....
THE PLACE OF SAPPHIRES, i.e. of precious stones; the sapphire, as one of the most eminent, being put for all the rest. In some parts of the earth the sapphires are mixed with stones, and cut out of th...
Job 28:6 stones H68 source H4725 sapphires H5601 gold H2091 dust H6083 sapphires - Job 28:16; Exodus 24:10; Song of Solomon 5:14; Isaiah 54:11; Revelation 21:19 dust of gold - or, gold ore...
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 f...
_And it hath dust of gold._ HOW TO TURN EVERYTHING TO GOLD This chapter in Job describes with all a poet’s force and beauty the miner’s life in its loneliness, its dangers, and its triumphs. In those...
_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...
Exodus 24:10; Isaiah 54:11; Job 28:16; Revelation 21:19; Song of Solomon 5:14...
Sapphires — Of precious stones; the sapphire, is one of the most eminent, being put for all the rest. In some parts of the earth, the sapphires are mixed with stones, and cut out of them and polished....