Job 28
HALLJob 28:1
Surely there is a vein for silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
However you have pleased to pass your censure concerning the proceedings of God, certainly his ways and his wisdom are unsearchable: there is a certain and determinate place for these earthly treasures, where they may be found out; there is a vein for silver and a place for gold.
Job 28:2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
And so it is with the coarser metals: iron is found in the earth; and brass is molten out of the ore, which is the rude matter of it.
Job 28:3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and shadow of death.
He setteth a stint or limit to the most obscure places of the earth; and, by the industry of man, finds them out; and works out of them the purity and perfection of the best metals and mines; and fetcheth thence those precious or useful stones, which lay hid in darkness and utter obscurity.
Job 28:4
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
He disposeth of the waters also at his pleasure; so as, one while the flood breaketh out by a sudden inundation; and, soon after, is so dried up, that the passenger’s foot takes not notice that ever any water was there.
Job 28:6
The stones of it are the places of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Among the quarries of the earth, are sapphires and other precious stones found and digged up; and the ore of gold is also had amongst the dust and mould thereof.
Job 28:7
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, &c.
There are indeed secret places of the earth, which never any creature came to the sight of, &c.
Job 28:12
But where shall wisdom be found, &c.
But in all these regions of the clouds, of the earth, of the waters, where shall wisdom be found?
Job 28:13
Neither is it found in the land of the living.
Neither is it to be found amongst living men; since it is not an earthly, but a heavenly thing.
Job 28:25
To make weights for the winds.
However the wind is the most light of all creatures, and incapable of any ponderation; yet he, who made it, can make weights wherein to poise it.