Job 28:6
Its stones are embedded with sapphires, and its soil, with gold.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
In Context
5The land, where bread appeared in its place, has been destroyed by fire.
7The bird does not know its path, nor has the eye of the vulture beheld it.
Cross References
Job 28:16It will not be compared with the dyed colors of India, nor with the very costly stone sardonyx, nor with the sapphire.
Isaiah 54:11O poor little ones, convulsed by the tempest, away from any consolation! Behold, I will set your stones in order, and I will lay your foundation 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 →