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Selected Verse: Job 28:6 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 28:6 |
Strong Concordance |
The stones [068] of it are the place [04725] of sapphires [05601]: and it hath dust [06083] of gold [02091]. |
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King James |
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Sapphires are found in alluvial soil near rocks and embedded in gneiss. The ancients distinguished two kinds: 1. The real, of transparent blue: 2. That improperly so called, opaque, with gold spots; that is, lapis lazuli. To the latter, looking like gold dust, UMBREIT refers "dust of gold." English Version better, "The stones of the earth are, &c., and the clods of it (Vulgate) are gold"; the parallel clauses are thus neater. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The stones of it are the place - Among the stones of the earth sapphires are found. "The situation of the sapphire is in alluvial soil, in the vicinity of rocks, belonging to the secondary floetz trap formation, and imbedded in gneiss." Jameson. "The sapphire occurs in considerable abundance in the granitic alluvion of Matura and Saffragam, in Ceylon." Davy.
Sapphires - Compare the note at Isa 54:11. The sapphire is a precious stone, usually of a blue color, though it is sometimes yellow, red, violet. green, or white. In hardness it is inferior to the diamond only:
"In unroll'd tufts, flowers purpled, blue and white,
Like sapphire, pearl, in rich embroidery."
Shakespeare
"He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue,
And on the sapphire spreads a heavenly blue."
Blackmore
The mineral is, next to the diamond, the most valuable of the precious stones. The most highly prized varieties are the crimson and carmine red; these are the "Oriental ruby" of the traveler, and next to the diamond are the most valuable jewels hitherto discovered. The blue varieties - the sapphire of the jeweler - are next in value to the red. The yellow varieties - the "Oriental Topaz" of the jeweler - are of less value than the blue or true sapphire. Edinburgh Encyclopedia, article "Mineralogy."
And it hath dust of gold - Margin, or "gold ore." Literally, "The dusts of gold are in it." Gold is often found in the form of dust. It is obtained by washing it from the sand, and passing it over a fleece of wool, to which the gold adheres. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Sapphires - Of precious stones; the sapphire, is one of the most eminent, being put for all the rest. In some parts of the earth, the sapphires are mixed with stones, and cut out of them and polished. Hath - The earth continueth. Dust - Distinct from that gold which is found in the mass, both sorts of gold being found in the earth. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The stones - the place of sapphires - In the language of mineralogists, the gangue, matrix, or bed in which the sapphire is found. For a description of this stone, see on Job 28:16 (note).
Dust of gold - Or rather, gold dust. |
11 O thou afflicted [06041], tossed with tempest [05590], and not comforted [05162], behold, I will lay [07257] thy stones [068] with fair colours [06320], and lay thy foundations [03245] with sapphires [05601].
16 It cannot be valued [05541] with the gold [03800] of Ophir [0211], with the precious [03368] onyx [07718], or the sapphire [05601].