1Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
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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:
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
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: …
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and industrious searches, make themselves masters of. But does it therefore follow that men may, by their wit, comprehend the reasons why some wicked people prosper and others are punished, why some good pe…
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