Job 28:6
The place of sapphires, are the stones thereof, and it hath, nuggets of gold:—
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, cometh forth bread, and, under it, is upturned, as it were fire;
7A path, the vulture hath not discerned, nor hath the eye of the hawk scanned it;
Cross References
Job 28:16It cannot be put into the scales against the gold of Ophir, with costly onyx, or sapphire;
Isaiah 54:11O thou humbled one storm-tossed, uncomforted,—Lo! I, am about to set in antimony, thy stones, And will found thee in 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 →