Job 28:6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
King James Version
In Context
5As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
7There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
Cross References
Job 28:16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Isaiah 54:11O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and 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 →