Job 28:1

Job's Discourse On Wisdom

¹ Surely there is a mine for silver
and a place where gold is refined.
² Iron is taken from the ground,
and copper is smelted from ore.

Job

Genesis 2:11-12

The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 23:15

“My lord, listen to me. Land worth 400 shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

Genesis 24:22

After the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing half a shekel, and for her wrists two bracelets weighing 10 shekels of gold.

1 Kings 7:48-50

Solomon also made all the equipment in the Lord’s temple: the gold altar; the gold table that the bread of the Presence was placed on;

1 Kings 10:21

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,

1 Chronicles 29:2-5

So to the best of my ability I’ve made provision for the house of my God: gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx, stones for mounting, antimony, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and a great quantity of marble.

Psalm 12:6

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

Proverbs 17:3

A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold,
and the Lord is the tester of hearts.

Proverbs 27:21

A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold,
and a man for the words of his praise.

Isaiah 48:10

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

Zechariah 13:9

I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
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: Yahweh is our God.”

Malachi 3:2-3

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who will be able to stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire and like cleansing lye.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.