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Job 28:10
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He cuts out channels in the rocks,and his eyes spot every treasure.
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
They cut tunnels through the rock and see all the treasures there.
He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.
"He cuts out channels and passages among the rocks; And his eye sees every precious thing.
"He carves out channels through the rocks, And his eye sees anything precious.
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
He breaks out channels through the rocks,And his eye sees anything precious.
He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.
and cuts out galleries in the rock, all the while watching for something of value.
He cutteth out channels in the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing.
They cut tunnels through the rocks and see all the treasures they hold.
He divides the rivers by his might; and his eye sees every precious thing.
As they tunnel through the rocks, They discover precious stones.
He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure.
He cuts out rivers among the rocks, and His eye sees every precious thing.
Ryuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seyth it.
He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing.
He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.
He cutteth out channels among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Hee cutteth out riuers among the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
Riuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seeth it.
and he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, and mine eye has seen every precious thing.
He cutteth out channels among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
He hewide doun ryuers in stoonys; and his iye siy al precious thing.
He cuts out channels among the rocks; And his eye sees every precious thing.
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
He cuts out channels in the rocks, And his eye sees every precious thing.
They cut tunnels in the rocks and uncover precious stones.
He makes a path through the rocks, and his eyes see everything of much worth.
They cut out channels in the rocks, and their eyes see every precious thing.
Among the rocks, hath he cut open streams, and, every precious thing, hath his eye seen:
In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.
He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious thing hath his eye seen.
"He hews out channels through the rocks, And his eye sees anything precious.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
every precious thing: Proverbs 14:23, Proverbs 24:4, Habakkuk 3:9
Cross-References
Terah decided to move from Ur to the land of Canaan. He took along Abram and Sarai and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran. But when they came to the city of Haran, they decided to settle there instead.
I don't deserve all the good things you have done for me, your servant. When I first crossed the Jordan, I had only my walking stick, but now I have two large groups of people and animals.
Jacob escaped to Syria where he tended sheep to earn himself a wife.
Stephen answered: Friends, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he had moved to Haran.
A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to visit Festus.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks,.... By cleaving rocks asunder in order to find out things of value in the cliffs of them; or by cutting his way through them, the miner opens a course for rivers and floods of water, to drain off from his mines, and so can go on with his works more comfortably, and with success; though sometimes they sink through high rocks, till they go so far below their basis, that they can go no further for water, in some places forty or fifty fathom deep i:
and his eye seeth every precious thing; in the cliffs of the rock, or at the bottom of the rivers and floods, as they go off, or in the mines he digs, even gold or silver, or precious stones: hence came the fable of Lynceus, and from him the phrase of Lyncean eyes k, who was said to see all things under the earth, because he was the first that searched for metals, as brass, silver, c. and in search of them carried lamps, or links, under the earth l. This verse is also by some ascribed to God, who is said to cleave the fountain and the flood, and to dry up mighty rivers and also to open rivers in high places, in hills, mountains, and rocks, as well as sometimes in the middle of the valleys, Psalms 74:15; and who, in a spiritual sense, has cut out and opened the river of his pure love and grace, which flows from the throne of God and the Lamb; and the fulness of grace in Christ, which is as rivers of water in a dry land; and the graces of the Spirit in his people, which flow out of them as rivers of living water; and his word and ordinances in his church, which are the rivers of pleasure he makes his saints to drink of in it: and his eye of omniscience, which sees all things in particular, sees all the precious things in nature; the precious things of heaven, and earth, and sea; the precious things brought forth by the sun and moon; and the precious tidings of the ancient mountains and everlasting hills, the gold, silver, and precious stones that lie hid in the bowels of them, Deuteronomy 33:13; and who also sees all precious persons, and things, in a spiritual sense; he beholds his precious Son, his precious blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, with delight and pleasure; and his eye of love, grace, and mercy, upon the precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, jewels, and precious stones; and sees all the precious graces of the Spirit in them, with acceptance and good will.
i Philos. Transaet. abridged, vol. 2. p. 469. k Horat. Sermon. l. 1. Satyr. 2. v. 90. l Palaephat. de Incredib. c. 10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks - That is, in his operations of mining, he cuts channels for the water to flow off through the rocks. This was done, as it is now, for the purpose of drawing off the water that accumulates in mines.
His eye seeth every precious thing - Every valuable mineral or precious stone that lies imbedded in the rocks. It is evident from this, that mining operations were carried to a considerable extent in the time of Job. The art of thus penetrating the earth, and laying open its secret treasures, indicate an advanced stage of society - a stage much removed from barbarism.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 28:10. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks — He cuts canals, adits, c., in the rocks, and drives levels under ground, in order to discover loads or veins of ore. These are often continued a great way under ground and may be poetically compared to rivers, channels, or canals.
His eye seeth every precious thing. — He sinks those shafts, and drives those levels, in order to discover where the precious minerals lie, of which he is in pursuit.
