Job 28:15

15 No se dará por oro, ni su precio será a peso de plata

Job 28:15 Meaning and Commentary

Job 28:15

It cannot be gotten for gold
Having in general said that there is nothing in the whole compass of the terraqueous globe, nothing that is upon the surface of the earth, or in the bowels of it, or in the vast ocean, that is an equivalent price for wisdom, Job descends to particulars, and instances first in gold, that being the most valuable of metals; the word here used for it signifies "shut up" ^F23, because it is first shut up in the earth, out of which it is dug, and when taken from thence, and refined, and made into coins or vessels, it is shut up among the treasures of men; the words may be more literally rendered, "gold shall not be given instead of it" ^F24; as a sufficient price, or valuable consideration for it:

neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price thereof;
in former times this metal used to be delivered, in buying and selling, not by the number and value of pieces, but by weight, in rude masses and lumps, and even when coined into shekels; see ( Genesis 23:16 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (rwgo) (sugkleismon) , Sept. "conclusum", Tigurine version; "clausum", Bolducius.
F24 (hytxt-zty al) "non dabitur pro ea", V. L. Montanus, Schultens.

Job 28:15 In-Context

13 El hombre nunca supo su valor, ni se halla en la tierra de los vivientes

14 El abismo dice: No está en mí; y el mar dijo: Ni conmigo

15 No se dará por oro, ni su precio será a peso de plata

16 No puede ser apreciada con oro de Ofir, ni con ónice precioso, ni con zafiro

17 El oro no se le igualará, ni el diamante; ni se cambiará por vaso de oro fino