Job 28:6
Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
In Context
5Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
7No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
Cross References
Job 28:16It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
Isaiah 54:11“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your 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 →