Job 28:6
Her stones are the place of the sapphire: 1 And her dust supplies man with gold. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 shall come bread: 1 Under it has been turned up as it were fire. 1
7There is a path, the fowl has not known it, 1 Neither has the eye of the vulture seen it: 1
Cross References
Job 28:16Neither shall it be compared with gold of Ophir, 1 With the precious onyx and sapphire. 1
Isaiah 54:11Afflicted and outcast thou hast not been comforted: behold, I will prepare carbuncle for thy stones, and sapphire for thy foundations;
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 →