Job 28:1
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
- KJV
- Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
- WEB
- “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
- ASV
- Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.
- DARBY
- Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine;
- BLB
- [“] Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for the gold [that] they refine.
- ÅB
- Sølvet har jo sin grube, og gullet, som renses, sitt finnested;
- OTB
- «Sannelig, det finnes en gruve for sølv
Og et sted for å rense gull. - B1930
- Sølvet har jo sin grube, og gullet, som renses, sitt finnested;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Read in contextMalachi 3:2–3
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
Read in contextProverbs 17:3
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Read in contextIsaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Read in contextProverbs 27:21
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Read in context1 Kings 10:21
And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Read in context1 Chronicles 29:2–5
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
Read in contextPsalms 12:6
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
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