Salmos 95:4

Deep places. — From a root meaning “to search,” perhaps by digging. Hence either “mines” or “mineral wealth.”

Strength of the hills. — The Hebrew word rendered “strength” is rare, found only here and Números 23:22; Números 24:8 (“strength of an unicorn”), and Jó 22:25 (“plenty of silver;” margin, “silver of strength”). The root to which the word is usually assigned means “to be weary,” from which the idea of strength can only be derived on the lucus a non lucendo principle. Keeping the usual derivation, we may, with many critics, give the word the sense of “mines” or “treasures,” because of the labours of extracting metal from the earth. This suits Jó 22:25, and makes a good parallelism. But the LXX. and Vulg. have “heights,” and by another derivation the Hebrew may mean shining, and so “sunny summit.” With this agrees the rendering of the LXX. in Números 23:22; Números 24:8, and the rhythm is preserved by an antithetic parallelism, as in next verse.