Job 28:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place for gold to be refined.

Cross References

Genesis 23:15

“My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

Genesis 24:22

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose ring weighing a half shekel and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels

1 Kings 10:21

All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver—it was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

Job 27:23

It claps its hands at them and hisses at them from its place.

Job 28:2

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

Psalm 12:6

The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Proverbs 17:3

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

Proverbs 27:21

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, so a person is tested by being praised.

Isaiah 48:10

See, I have refined you but not like silver; I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. 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 our God.’ ”

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.