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Job 28:16
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Wisdom cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,in precious onyx or lapis lazuli.
It can't be valued with the gold of Ofir, With the precious shoham, or the sappir.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
Wisdom cannot be bought with fine gold or with valuable onyx or sapphire gems.
It cannot be measured out for purchase with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphires.
"It cannot be valued in [terms of] the gold of Ophir, In the precious onyx or beryl, or the sapphire.
"It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, In precious onyx, or sapphire.
It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,In precious onyx or sapphire.
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
It can't be purchased with choice gold from Ofir, or with precious onyx or sapphires.
It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.
You cannot buy it with gold from Ophir or with precious onyx or sapphires.
It cannot be exchanged with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphire.
The finest gold and jewels Cannot equal its value.
It cannot be bought for the gold of Ophir, for precious onyx or sapphire.
It cannot be weighed against the gold of Ophir, against precious onyx, or sapphire;
No wedges of golde of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
It cannot be valued with the golde of Ophir, with the precious Onix, or the Saphire.
No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphires may be valued with her.
Neither shall it be compared with gold of Sophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
It schal not be comparysound to the died colours of Iynde, not to the moost preciouse stoon of sardius, nether to saphir.
It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, In precious onyx or sapphire.
It's worth more than all the gold of Ophir, greater than precious onyx or lapis lazuli.
It cannot be compared in worth to the gold of Ophir, onyx of much worth, or sapphire.
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
It cannot be put into the scales against the gold of Ophir, with costly onyx, or sapphire;
It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire,
"It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, In precious onyx, or sapphire.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the gold: 1 Chronicles 29:4, Psalms 45:9, Isaiah 13:12
onyx: Exodus 28:20, Ezekiel 28:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:12 - onyx Genesis 10:29 - Ophir Exodus 28:9 - onyx Exodus 28:18 - sapphire Exodus 39:6 - onyx stones 1 Kings 9:28 - Ophir 1 Chronicles 29:2 - onyx stones Job 28:6 - sapphires Revelation 21:19 - the foundations
Cross-References
May he bless you with the land he gave Abraham, so that you will take over this land where we now live as foreigners.
and that he had obeyed his father and mother.
God replied, "Don't come any closer. Take off your sandals—the ground where you are standing is holy.
Our Lord , no other gods compare with you— Majestic and holy! Fearsome and glorious! Miracle worker!
"Take off your sandals," the commander answered. "This is a holy place." So Joshua took off his sandals.
God walks right past me, without making a sound.
God speaks in different ways, and we don't always recognize his voice.
The God of Israel is fearsome in his temple, and he makes us strong. Let's praise our God!
I am the one you should fear and respect. I am the holy God, the Lord All-Powerful!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,.... Which is often spoken of in Scripture as choice gold, if not the best;
:-; the sense is, that the gold of Ophir is not of the value of wisdom, or of the same worth with that, and so not sufficient to purchase it: with the precious onyx and sapphire: two precious stones that were in the breastplate of the high priest, of which :-,
:-, and
:-; but not so precious, or of such value as wisdom. Pliny y speaks of the onyx stone as in Arabia, near which Job lived, and who doubtless was acquainted with it and its worth, and also with the sapphire he makes mention of before,
:-. The word for "valued" is by some rendered "strowed" z, as goods are when they are exposed to sale; but wisdom should not be laid, or put on a level with these, though so excellent and precious.
y Nat. Hist. l. 37. c. 6. z תסלה "verbum significat sternere", Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The gold of Ophir - Uniformly spoken of as the most precious gold; see the notes at Job 22:24.
With the precious onyx - The onyx is a semi-pellucid gem, with variously colored veins or zones. It is a variety of the chalcedony. The Arabic word denotes that which was of two colors, where the white predominated. The Greeks gave the name “onyx” ὄνυξ onux to the gem from its resemblance to the color of the thumbnail; see Passow.
Or the sapphire - See the notes at Job 28:6.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 28:16. The gold of Ophir — Gold is five times mentioned in this and verses Job 28:17 and Job 28:19, and four of the times in different words. I shall consider them all at once.
1. סגור SEGOR, from סגר sagar, to shut up. Gold. in the mine, or shut up in the ore; native gold washed by the streams out of the mountains, c. unwrought gold.
Ver. Job 28:16. 2. כתם KETHEM, from כתם catham, to sign or stamp: gold made current by being coined, or stamped with its weight or value; what we would call standard or sterling gold.
Ver. Job 28:17. 3. זהב ZAHAB, from זהב zahab, to be Lear, bright, or resplendent: the untarnishing metal; the only metal that always keeps its lustre. But probably here it means gold chased, or that in which precious stones are set; burnished gold.
4. פז PAZ, from פז paz, to consolidate, joined here with keley, vessels, ornaments, instruments, c.: hammered or wrought gold gold in the finest forms, and most elegant utensils. This metal is at once the brightest, most solid, and most precious, of all the metals yet discovered, of which we have no less than forty in our catalogues.
In these verses there are also seven kinds of precious stones, c., mentioned: onyx, sapphire, crystal, coral, pearls, rubies, and topaz. These I shall also consider in the order of their occurrence.
Ver. Job 28:16. 1. שהם shoham, the ONYX, from ονυξ, a man's nail, hoof of a horse, because in colour it resembles both. This stone is a species of chalcedony and consists of alternate layers of white and brown chalcedony, under which it generally ranges. In the Vulgate it is called sardonyx, compounded of sard and onyx. Sard is also a variety of chalcedony, of a deep reddish-brown colour, of which, and alternate layers of milk-white chalcedony, the sardonyx consists. A most beautiful block of this mineral sardonyx, from Iceland, now lies before me.
2. ספיר sappir, the SAPPHIRE stone, from ספר saphar, to count, number; probably from the number of golden spots with which it is said the sapphire of the ancients abounded. PLINY says, Hist. Nat. lib. xxxvii., cap. 8: Sapphirus aureis punctis collucet: coeruleae et sapphiri, raraque cum purpura: optimae apud Medos, nusquam tame perlucidae. "The sapphire glitters with golden spots. Sapphires are sometimes of an azure, never of a purple colour. Those of Media are the best, but there are none transparent." This may mean the blood stones; but see below.
What we call the sapphire is a variety of the perfect corundum; it is in hardness inferior only to the diamond. It is of several colours, and from them it has obtained several names.
1. The transparent or translucent is called the white sapphire.
2. The blue is called the oriental sapphire.
3. The violet blue, the oriental amethyst.
4. The yellow, the oriental topaz.
5. The green, the oriental emerald.
6. That with pearly reflections, the opalescent sapphire.
7. When transparent, with a pale, reddish, or bluish reflection, it is called the girasol sapphire.
8. A variety which, when polished, shows a silvered star of six rays in a direction perpendicular to the axis, is called asteria.
When the meaning of the Hebrew word is collated with the description given by Pliny, it must be evident that a spotted opaque stone is meant, and consequently not what is now known by the name sapphire. I conjecture, therefore, that lapis lazuli, which is of a blue colour, with golden-like spots, formed by pyrites of iron, must be intended. The lapis lazuli is that from which the beautiful and unfading colour called ultramarine is obtained.
Ver. Job 28:17. 3. זכוכית zechuchith, CRYSTAL, or glass, from זכה zachah, to be pure, clear, transparent. Crystal or crystal of quartz is a six-sided prism, terminated by six-sided pyramids. It belongs to the siliceous class of minerals: it is exceedingly clear and brilliant, insomuch that this property of it has become proverbial, as clear as crystal.
