Job 28:6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
In Context
5As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
7No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the falcon's eye seen it.
Cross References
Job 28:16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Isaiah 54:11O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Matthew Henry on Job 28:2-12
Extent of Human Discoveries. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. 3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as… Read the whole commentary →