Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There are places were silver is molten, and where gold is tried;
New American Standard Bible
And a place
King James Version
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
Holman Bible
and a place where gold is refined.
International Standard Version
"Surely there are mines for silver and places where gold is refined.
A Conservative Version
Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
American Standard Version
Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.
Amplified
And a place where they refine gold.
Bible in Basic English
Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.
Darby Translation
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine;
Julia Smith Translation
For there is a going forth for silver, and a place for gold they will purify it
King James 2000
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Indeed, there is a mine for silver and a place {for gold to be refined}.
Modern King James verseion
Surely there is a mine for the silver, and a place where they refine gold.
NET Bible
"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.
New Heart English Bible
"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
The Emphasized Bible
Though there is, for silver, a vein, and a place for the gold they refine;
Webster
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
World English Bible
"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
Youngs Literal Translation
Surely there is for silver a source, And a place for the gold they refine;
Themes
Interlinear
Mowtsa'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 28:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Discourse On Wisdom
1 There are places were silver is molten, and where gold is tried; 2 where iron is digged out of the ground, and stones resolved to metal.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 2:11-12
The name of the one is Pishon; he it is that compasseth all the land of Havilah, where gold groweth.
Genesis 23:15
"My lord, hearken unto me. The land is worth four hundredth sicles of silver: But what is that betwixt thee and me? Bury thy dead."
Genesis 24:22
And as the camels had left drinking, he took an earring of half a sicle weight, and two bracelets for her hands, of ten sicles weight of gold,
1 Kings 7:48-50
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the Altar of gold, and the table of gold whereon the shewbread was put.
1 Kings 10:21
And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold. And as for silver, it was nothing worth in the days of Solomon.
1 Chronicles 29:2-5
Moreover, I have prepared with all my might for the house of God: gold for things of gold, and silver for things of silver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood: and onyx stones, set stones, and of other gay stones, and all manner of precious stones, and of marble great abundance.
Psalm 12:6
The words of the LORD are pure words: even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.
Proverbs 17:3
Like as silver is tried in the fire and gold in the furnace, even so doth the LORD prove the hearts.
Proverbs 27:21
Silver is tried in the mould, and gold in the furnace, and so is a man, when he is openly praised to his face.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have purged thee, and not for money. I have chosen thee in the fire of poverty;
Zechariah 13:9
And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"
Malachi 3:2-3
Who shall endure in the day of his coming, or who shall stand to behold him? For he is as trying fire, and as the herb that fullers scour withal.
1 Peter 1:7
that your faith, once tried, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto laud, glory, and honour, at the appearing of Jesus Christ: