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 ]