Teks -- Job 28:15 (NET)

28:15 Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

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JFB: Job 28:15

Not the usual word for "gold"; from a Hebrew root, "to shut up" with care; that is, purest gold (1Ki 6:20, Margin).

JFB: Job 28:15 - weighed

The precious metals were weighed out before coining was known (Gen 23:16).

Clarke: Job 28:15 - It cannot be gotten for gold

It cannot be gotten for gold - Genuine religion and true happiness are not to be acquired by earthly property. Solomon made gold and silver as plentiful as the stones in Jerusalem, and had all the delights of the sons of men, and yet he was not happy; yea, he had wisdom, was the wisest of men, but he had not the wisdom of which Job speaks here, and therefore, to him, all was vanity and vexation of spirit. If Solomon, as some suppose, was the author of this book, the sentiments expressed here are such as we might expect from this deeply experienced and wise man.

TSK: Job 28:15 - It cannot be gotten for gold

It cannot be gotten for gold : Heb. Fine gold shall not be given for it, Job 28:18; Pro 3:13-15, Pro 8:10, Pro 8:17, Pro 8:19, Pro 16:16

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Poole: Job 28:15 - For gold

For gold the choicest gold laid up in treasures, as the word signifies. Weighed , to wit, in the balance; for in those times money was paid by weight, not by tale. See Gen 23:16 Jer 23:9,10 .

Haydock: Job 28:15 - Finest, obrizum

Finest, obrizum, which has the colour of fire. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xxiii. 3.) The old Vulgate and Septuagint read "locked-up gold," aurum conclusum, (Calmet) and the Hebrew Segor, (Haydock) "that which is shut up," like things of value: gold is sometimes specified, 3 Kings vi. 20.

Gill: Job 28:15 - It cannot be gotten for gold // neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof

It cannot be gotten for gold,.... Having in general said that there is nothing in the whole compass of the terraqueous globe, nothing that is upon the surface of the earth, or in the bowels of it, or in the vast ocean, that is an equivalent price for wisdom, Job descends to particulars, and instances first in gold, that being the most valuable of metals; the word here used for it signifies "shut up" ^w, because it is first shut up in the earth, out of which it is dug, and when taken from thence, and refined, and made into coins or vessels, it is shut up among the treasures of men; the words may be more literally rendered, "gold shall not be given instead of it" ^x; as a sufficient price, or valuable consideration for it:

neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof; in former times this metal used to be delivered, in buying and selling, not by the number and value of pieces, but by weight, in rude masses and lumps, and even when coined into shekels; see Gen 23:16.