Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
In Context
15It cannot be gotten for gold, nor shall silver be weighed for the price of it.
17Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:4even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses,
Isaiah 13:12I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.
Matthew Henry on Job 28:13-20
The Excellency of Wisdom. ( b. c. 1520.) 14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. 15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. 19 The topaz of Ethiopia… Read the whole commentary →