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Job 28 · a question people ask

Chapter 28 has no heading. Who is speaking?

In the text

The book marks its speakers with headings, and chapter 28 has none of its own. By those headings it stands within the words that open, "Job again took up his parable, and said" (27:1), and the next heading repeats them: "Job again took up his parable, and said" (29:1). That is all the headings show. The chapter itself names no speaker, and the book says nothing more about it, so these notes go no further.

The verses

“Job again took up his parable, and said,”
Job 27:1 · World English Bible
“Job again took up his parable, and said,”
Job 29:1 · World English Bible

From Favor's study of Job 28

Job 28: Where will wisdom be found?

The miner brings "the thing that is hidden" to light (28:11), but wisdom "is hidden from the eyes of all living" (28:21), and Strong's gives the first word as coming from the second's verb. God "searched it out" (28:27), the miner's verb in 28:3, and "To depart from evil" (28:28) has, in Hebrew, the verb and the word for evil of 1:1's "turned away from evil".

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