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2018 April 21

The Copper Mine (c. 1540)
Herri met de Bles (c. 1510 - c. 1555-1560)
Northern Renaissance and Northern Mannerism Style
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art

[ Illustration: Today's painting depicts the search for copper, one of the most important metals in Bible times. It is mentioned in verse 2 of today's chapter. ]

SPECIAL NOTE:

[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no chapters will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]

     Explanation: In Job 28, Job continues his reply to his accusers. In this chapter Job compares the search for wisdom to the search for riches.
     In this chapter, Job offers a three part discussion of wisdom. In the first part, he tells us how great is the effort which men put into the search for riches. In the second part, he tells us how much more difficult is the search for wisdom. In the third part, he tells us that only God knows where to find wisdom; and he shows us how to obtain it from the Lord.
     Silver, gold, iron, and brass (copper) can be found in their own places (1-2).
     Men search in the darkest places to find them: among "the stones, the dark, and the horrible shadow," as Coverdale translates it (3).
     These things are found in dry, desolate, and forgotten places where neither fowl, nor beast, nor man pass by; but God sees every precious thing that is there and brings them to light (4-11).
     But it is far more difficult to find wisdom (12).
     And it is far more valuable: men do not have its price; it is not found in the land of the living. It is not in the depth or the breadth of the sea. It cannot be purchased for gold, silver, precious stones, coral, pearls, rubies, topaz, or the like. (13-19).
     Where then is wisdom? Death and destruction do not have it (20-22).
     But God understands where to find it. He knows everything in earth and heaven; and he has searched it out. "And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding" (23-28).

     [ Sermons: Brian Borgman. Various. ]

Bile Chronologies -- Genesis to Revelation

[Traditional Patriarchal Chronology. Judges Period Chronology 1. Judges Period Chronology 2. Kings of Judah and Israel #1. Kings of Judah and Israel #2].

[Post Exile Chronology 1. Post Exile Chronology 2. Post Exile Chronology 3.]

[Prophets Chronology 1. Prophets Chronology 2. Prophets Chronology 3. Prophets Chronology 4.]

[Intertestamental Period Chronology 1. Intertestamental Period Chronology 2. Intertestamental Period Chronology 3.
Intertestamental Period Chronology 4. Intertestamental Period Chronology 5.]

[New Testament Chronology 1. New Testament Chronology 2. New Testament Chronology 3. New Testament Chronology 4. New Testament Chronology 5.]

RESOURCES

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          [ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Job 28: Job 25; Job 26; Job 27; Job 29; Job 30; Job 31 ].
[1] Genesis 2:11-12; Psalm 12:6.
[2] Genesis 4:22; Numbers 31:22; Deuteronomy 8:9; 1 Chronicles 22:14.
[12] Proverbs 2:4-6; Proverbs 3:19; Colossians 2:3; James 1:5, 17.
[13] Psalm 19:10; Psalm 119:72; Proverbs 3:14-15; Proverbs 8:11, 18-19; Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 23:23; Ecclesiastes 8:16-17.
[20] Proverbs 2:6; Ecclesiastes 7:23-24.
[23] Psalm 147:5; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Jude 1:25.
[24] 2 Chronicles 16:9.
[25] Psalm 135:7; Isaiah 40:12.
[26] Jeremiah 14:22.
[28] Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 9:10; Proverbs 3:7.
     -- From Treasury of Scripture Knowledge ]

          [ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]

          [ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]

          [ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

          [ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]

HARMONY OF THE LAW

John Calvin - CCEL | Analytical Chart - BLB

GOSPEL HARMONIES

Gospel Harmony - Summary | The Harmony of the Gospels - Augustine | Gospel Harmony Chart - Online Bible

Greek Harmony of the Gospels - Robertson - (Downloadable PDF) | Gospel Harmony in English - Robertson - (Downloadable PDF)

HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES

Hebrew and Greek Interlinear Download - Scripture 4 All

Bible Hub Interlinear Hebrew and Greek Bible

Bible Hub Hebrew Interlinear | Scripture 4 All Hebrew Interlinear

Mounce Interlinear | Bible Hub Greek Interlinear | Scripture 4 All Greek Interlinear Bible

Job Detailed Outline

The Book of Job

(THE JUSTICE AND THE WISDOM OF THE COVENANT GOD)

2085 B.C., Uz

The wisdom and blessing of exercising faith during undeserved suffering

Job 28

Map 1: Bible Nations | Map 2: Empire of David and Solomon Map 3: Kingdoms of Judah and Israel | Post Exile Chronology.

2. The Debate About Job's Affliction (Job 2:11 - Job 37:24)

c. Round 3 (Job 22:1 - Job 31:40)

1). Eliphaz Replies to Job (Job 22:1 - Job 22:30)

(You have done evil to others; return to God.)

2). Job Replies to Eliphaz (Job 23:1 - Job 24:6 )

(If I could come before God I could persuade him of my innocence.

Some of those who know God perish as do some of the wicked.)

3). Bildad Replies to Job (Job 25:1 - Job 25:6 )

(How can anyone be righteous?)

4). Job Replies to Bildad (Job 26:1 - Job 31:40)

(You have been of no help.

God has denied me justice.

May my enemies be like the wicked who perish suddenly.

Man does not understand wisdom.

I long for my past blessings, but mockers surround me.

I have obeyed God.)

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. 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. ⁵ As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. ⁶ The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. ⁷ There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: ⁸ The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. ⁹ He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. ¹⁰ He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. ¹¹ He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
¹² But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understnding? ¹³ Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. ¹⁴ 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 Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. ¹⁷ The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. ¹⁸ No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. ¹⁹ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. ²⁰ 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 knoweth the place thereof. ²⁴ For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; ²⁵ To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. ²⁶ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: ²⁷ Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. ²⁸ And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

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