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New Living Translation

Job 28:10

They cut tunnels in the rocks and uncover precious stones.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Civil Engineering;   Continents;   Geology;   God Continued...;   Readings, Select;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Eye, the;   Rivers;   Rocks;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - River;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mine;   River;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mines;   Holman Bible Dictionary - God;   Job, the Book of;   Silver;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brook;   Mining and Metals;   Pearl;   Wisdom;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mines, Mining;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - River;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nile;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He cuts out channels in the rocks,and his eyes spot every treasure.
Hebrew Names Version
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
King James Version
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
English Standard Version
He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
New Century Version
They cut tunnels through the rock and see all the treasures there.
New English Translation
He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.
Amplified Bible
"He cuts out channels and passages among the rocks; And his eye sees every precious thing.
New American Standard Bible
"He carves out channels through the rocks, And his eye sees anything precious.
World English Bible
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
Legacy Standard Bible
He breaks out channels through the rocks,And his eye sees anything precious.
Berean Standard Bible
He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.
Contemporary English Version
They dig through the rocks in search of jewels and precious metals.
Complete Jewish Bible
and cuts out galleries in the rock, all the while watching for something of value.
Darby Translation
He cutteth out channels in the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Easy-to-Read Version
They cut tunnels through the rocks and see all the treasures they hold.
George Lamsa Translation
He divides the rivers by his might; and his eye sees every precious thing.
Good News Translation
As they tunnel through the rocks, They discover precious stones.
Lexham English Bible
He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure.
Literal Translation
He cuts out rivers among the rocks, and His eye sees every precious thing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ryuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seyth it.
American Standard Version
He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing.
Bible in Basic English
He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He cutteth out channels among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
King James Version (1611)
Hee cutteth out riuers among the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Riuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seeth it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, and mine eye has seen every precious thing.
English Revised Version
He cutteth out channels among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He hewide doun ryuers in stoonys; and his iye siy al precious thing.
Update Bible Version
He cuts out channels among the rocks; And his eye sees every precious thing.
Webster's Bible Translation
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
New King James Version
He cuts out channels in the rocks, And his eye sees every precious thing.
New Life Bible
He makes a path through the rocks, and his eyes see everything of much worth.
New Revised Standard
They cut out channels in the rocks, and their eyes see every precious thing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Among the rocks, hath he cut open streams, and, every precious thing, hath his eye seen:
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.
Revised Standard Version
He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
Young's Literal Translation
Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious thing hath his eye seen.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He hews out channels through the rocks, And his eye sees anything precious.

Contextual Overview

1 "People know where to mine silver and how to refine gold. 2 They know where to dig iron from the earth and how to smelt copper from rock. 3 They know how to shine light in the darkness and explore the farthest regions of the earth as they search in the dark for ore. 4 They sink a mine shaft into the earth far from where anyone lives. They descend on ropes, swinging back and forth. 5 Food is grown on the earth above, but down below, the earth is melted as by fire. 6 Here the rocks contain precious lapis lazuli, and the dust contains gold. 7 These are treasures no bird of prey can see, no falcon's eye observe. 8 No wild animal has walked upon these treasures; no lion has ever set his paw there. 9 People know how to tear apart flinty rocks and overturn the roots of mountains. 10 They cut tunnels in the rocks and uncover precious stones.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

every precious thing: Proverbs 14:23, Proverbs 24:4, Habakkuk 3:9

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram's wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.
Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of all the unfailing love and faithfulness you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home and crossed the Jordan River, I owned nothing except a walking stick. Now my household fills two large camps!
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and there he earned a wife by tending sheep.
Acts 7:2
This was Stephen's reply: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Mesopotamia before he settled in Haran.
Acts 25:13
A few days later King Agrippa arrived with his sister, Bernice, to pay their respects to 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.


 
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