Job 28:6
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
7No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.
Cross References
Job 28:16It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.
Isaiah 54:11O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be 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 →