Job 28:1

New English Translation

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.

Cross References

Genesis 23:15

“Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

Genesis 24:22

After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.

1 Kings 10:21

All of King Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon’s time.

Job 27:23

It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.

Job 28:2

Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

Psalm 12:6

The Lord’s words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the Lord tests hearts.

Proverbs 27:21

As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person is proved by the praise he receives.

Isaiah 48:10

Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.

Zechariah 13:9

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, ‘These are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

1 Peter 1:7

Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold – gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away – and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.