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Text -- Job 28:1-11 (NET)
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Strongs On/Off
Context
III. Job’s Search for Wisdom (28:1-28)
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Philosophy |
EUNICE |
MINES, MINING |
Job |
MINE; MINING |
JOB, BOOK OF |
ETHICS, III |
Readings, Select |
Science |
Mine |
BARUCH, BOOK OF |
Vulture |
Land, Land Masses |
Geology |
KITE |
Civil Engineering |
Lion |
RIVER |
Bronze |
Arts and Crafts |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
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NET Notes: Job 28:2 The verb יָצוּק (yatsuq) is usually translated as a passive participle “is smelted” (from י...
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NET Notes: Job 28:3 The verse ends with “the stone of darkness and deep darkness.” The genitive would be location, describing the place where the stones are f...
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NET Notes: Job 28:4 This is a description of the mining procedures. Dangling suspended from a rope would be a necessary part of the job of going up and down the shafts.
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NET Notes: Job 28:5 The verse has been properly understood, on the whole, as comparing the earth above and all its produce with the upheaval down below.
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NET Notes: Job 28:6 H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 181) suggests that if it is lapis lazuli, then the dust of gold would refer to the particles of iron pyrite found in lapis l...
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NET Notes: Job 28:7 The kind of bird mentioned here is debated. The LXX has “vulture,” and so some commentaries follow that. The emphasis on the sight favors ...
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NET Notes: Job 28:8 Heb “the sons of pride.” In Job 41:26 the expression refers to carnivorous wild beasts.
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NET Notes: Job 28:9 The Hebrew מִשֹּׁרֶשׁ (mishoresh) means “from/at [their] root [or base].” In m...
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