Job 28:6
New International Version
lapis lazuli comes from its rocks, and its dust contains nuggets of gold.

New Living Translation
Here the rocks contain precious lapis lazuli, and the dust contains gold.

English Standard Version
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

Berean Standard Bible
Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

King James Bible
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

New King James Version
Its stones are the source of sapphires, And it contains gold dust.

New American Standard Bible
“Its rocks are the source of sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

NASB 1995
“Its rocks are the source of sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

NASB 1977
“Its rocks are the source of sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

Legacy Standard Bible
Its rocks are the source of sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

Amplified Bible
“Its stones are the bed of sapphires; It holds dust of gold.

Christian Standard Bible
Its rocks are a source of lapis lazuli, containing flecks of gold.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Its rocks are a source of sapphire, containing flecks of gold.

American Standard Version
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the place of sapphire, its stone, and the pouring out of gold in its paths

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and her dust supplies man with gold.

Contemporary English Version
that have jewels or gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.

English Revised Version
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
That place's stones are sapphire. Its dust contains gold.

Good News Translation
The stones of the earth contain sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

International Standard Version
where stones are sapphire and gold dust can be found,

JPS Tanakh 1917
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

Literal Standard Version
A place of the sapphire [are] its stones, | And it has dust of gold.

Majority Standard Bible
Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

New American Bible
Its stones are the source of lapis lazuli, and there is gold in its dust.

NET Bible
a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;

New Revised Standard Version
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and its dust contains gold.

New Heart English Bible
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

World English Bible
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

Young's Literal Translation
A place of the sapphire are its stones, And it hath dust of gold.

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Context
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
5Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire. 6Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold. 7No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.…

Cross References
Job 28:5
Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

Job 28:7
No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon's eye has seen it.


Treasury of Scripture

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.

sapphires

Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Exodus 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

Song of Solomon 5:14
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

dust of gold.

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Job 28
1. There is a knowledge of natural things
12. But wisdom is an excellent gift of God














(6) The stones of it are the place of sapphires.--So ingenious is man that he discovereth a place of which the stones are sapphires and the very dust gold, and a path that no bird of prey knoweth, and which the falcon's eye hath not seen.

Verse 6. - The stones of it are the place of sapphires. Among the rocks and stones whereof the interior of the earth is mainly composed are found gems of inestinable value, for instance, sapphires. It is doubtful whether the Hebrew sapphire (ספיר) was the gem which bears that name among ourselves, or the lapis lazuli. In either case it was highly esteemed, and appeared in kings' crowns (Ezekiel 28:13), and in the high priest's breastplate (Exodus 28:18); Job notes its high value in ver. 16. And it (i.e. the earth) hath dust of gold; literally, dusts; i.e. a multitude of small specks or atoms. In the auriferous rocks gold is commonly scattered in such specks.

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Hebrew
Its rocks
אֲבָנֶ֑יהָ (’ă·ḇā·ne·hā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 68: A stone

are the source
מְקוֹם־ (mə·qō·wm-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

of sapphires,
סַפִּ֥יר (sap·pîr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5601: A gem, the sapphire

containing flecks
וְעַפְרֹ֖ת (wə·‘ap̄·rōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

of gold.
זָהָ֣ב (zā·hāḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky


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