“My lord, listen to me. A land worth 400 shekels of silver—what is that between me and you? Bury your dead one.”
Job 28:1 - Tree of Life Version “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition SURELY THERE is a mine for silver, and a place for gold where they refine it. American Standard Version (1901) Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine. Common English Bible There is a sure source of silver, a place where gold is refined. Catholic Public Domain Version Silver has its fissures where it is first found, and gold has a place where it is melted. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Silver hath beginnings of its veins: and gold hath a place wherein it is melted. |
“My lord, listen to me. A land worth 400 shekels of silver—what is that between me and you? Bury your dead one.”
Now after the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a nose ring of gold weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets on her hands weighing ten shekels of gold.
All of King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the Forest House of Lebanon were of pure gold. (None was of silver—that did not count for anything in the days of Solomon.)
It claps its hands at him in derision, and hisses him out of his place.”
“Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the groaning of the needy, now will I arise,” says Adonai. “I will put him in the safe place— he pants for it.”
A crucible is for silver and a furnace is for gold, but Adonai tests the heart.
A crucible is for silver and a furnace is for gold, but a person is proved by the praise he receives.
Behold, I have refined you, though not as silver. I tested you in the furnace of affliction.
This third I will bring through the fire. I will refine them as silver is refined, and will 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 answer, ‘Adonai is my God.’
These trials are so that the true metal of your faith (far more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire) may come to light in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Messiah Yeshua.