Job 28:6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
KJV
Locus sapphiri lapides ejus, et glebæ illius aurum.
Vulgate
τόπος σαπφείρου οἱ λίθοι αὐτῆς, καὶ χῶμα χρυσίον αὐτῷ.
LXX
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.
ASV
מְקוֹם סַפִּ֥יר אֲבָנֶ֑י/הָ וְ/עַפְרֹ֖ת זָהָ֣ב לֽ/וֹ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶ֣בֶן
'bn
noun · 267×
וֹ
v
noun · 398×
זָהָ֖ב
zhb
noun · 388×
סַפִּ֖יר
spyr
noun · 11×
עָפָ֥ר
'pr
noun · 109×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Exod 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.
- Isa 54:11 — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
- Job 28:16 — It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- Rev 21:19 — And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
- Song 5:14 — His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.