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Job 28:1 — King James Version← Study notes

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.


Job 28:1Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 28:17 words
HebrewMeaning
כִּ֤יkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
יֵ֣שׁyēš
thereparticleH3426
(he · it · shall · there ···
לַ/כֶּ֣סֶףlakesep
for silverpronH3701
price · silver
מוֹצָ֑אmwōṣāʾ
is a minenounH4161
bud · that which came out · east · going forth ···
וּ֝/מָק֗וֹםwmāqwōm
and a placeconjH4725
home · open · place · room ···
לַ/זָּהָ֥בlazāhāb
for goldpronH2091
fair weather
יָזֹֽקּוּyāzōqw
which people refineverbH2212
pour down · purge · purify · refine
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 28:1

The silver hath the beginning of its veins, and to the gold there is a place, where they fine it. In silver the power of speaking, in gold brightness of life or of wisdom is used to be denoted. And because heretics are so filled with pride for the brilliancy of their speaking, that they are not based firmly by any authority of the sacred books, (which books are for speaking like a kind of veins of silver to us, because from those identical books we derive the spring and…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 18 §38
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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