Job 28:1

Modern English Version

“Surely there is a mine for the silver, and a place where they refine gold.

Cross References

Genesis 23:15

“My lord, listen to me. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

Genesis 24:22

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose ring of half a shekel weight and two bracelets for her wrists of ten shekels weight in gold,

1 Kings 10:21

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were made of gold, and all the cups of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were made of pure gold. None were made of silver, for it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

Job 27:23

Men will clap their hands at him and will hiss him out of his place.

Job 28:2

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.

Psalm 12:6

The words of the Lord are pure words, silver tried in an earthen furnace, purified seven times.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord is the tester of the heart.

Proverbs 27:21

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but a man is tested by his praise.

Isaiah 48:10

Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring this one-third left into the fire, and will refine them as the refinement of silver, and will test them as the testing of gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are My people”; and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”

1 Peter 1:7

in order that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tried by fire, may be found to result in praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,