Job 28:6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
In Context
5The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.
7The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.
Cross References
Job 28:16It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.
Isaiah 54:11O poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all comfort, behold I will lay thy stones in order, and will 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 →