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Job 28:17
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Wisdom is more valuable than gold and crystal. It cannot be purchased with jewels mounted in fine gold.
Gold and glass cannot equal it: neither shall the exchange thereof be jewels of fine gold.
Gold and glass can't equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
Gold and crystal are not as valuable as wisdom, and you cannot buy it with jewels of gold.
Neither gold nor crystal can be compared with it, nor can a vase of gold match its worth.
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold.
Gold and glass can't equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
"Gold and glass cannot equal wisdom, Nor can it be exchanged for articles of fine gold.
Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
Nether gold, nether glas schal be maad euene worth therto;
Neither gold nor crystal can compare, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it.
Nothing is its equal— not gold or costly glass.
Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
Gold and glass are not equal to it in price, and it may not be exchanged for jewels of the best gold.
Neither gold nor glass can be compared with it; nor can it be exchanged for a bowl of fine gold,
Gold and glass cannot be compared to it, nor vessels of fine gold be its exchange.
Wisdom is worth more than gold or crystal. It cannot be bought with expensive jewels set in gold.
Gold and glass cannot equal it; neither shall the exchange thereof be vessels of fine gold.
The golde and the chrystall cannot equall it: and the exchange of it shall not be for iewels of fine golde.
Gold or glass cannot be compared to it in worth and it cannot be traded for objects of fine gold.
Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it; nor can precious pearls, jewels, and emeralds equal it.
It is worth more than gold, Than a gold vase or finest glass.
Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can, the exchange thereof, be a vessel of pure gold,
Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of gold be changed for it.
Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
No, neither golde nor christall shall be equall vnto it, nor her exchaunge shalbe for the plate of fine golde.
Gold and crystal shall not be equalled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange.
Gold and glass do not compare with it,and articles of fine gold cannot be exchanged for it.
Gold and zekukeet can't equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
Gold and glass cannot be compared with it, and its substitution cannot be an ornament of refined gold.
gold and crystal cannot be ranked with it, nor its exchange a vessel of fine gold.
Not equal it do gold and crystal, Nor [is] its exchange a vessel of fine gold.
No, nether golde ner Christall, nether swete odours ner golden plate.
"Gold or glass cannot equal it, Nor can it be exchanged for articles of pure gold.
Neither gold nor crystal can equal it, Nor can it be exchanged for jewelry of fine gold.
"Gold or glass cannot equal it, Nor can it be exchanged for articles of fine gold.
Gold or glass cannot meet its worth,Nor can it be exchanged for articles of fine gold.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
crystal: Ezekiel 1:22, Revelation 4:6, Revelation 21:11, Revelation 22:1
jewels: or, vessels
Cross-References
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it,.... Crystal was found in an island of the Red sea, situated before Arabia, called Neron, and in another, which from a gem found in it bears the name of Topazion, and may be thought therefore to be well known by Job; and though it is not now of so much account, it formerly was very valuable. Pliny a makes mention of a crystal vessel, sold for 150,000 sesterces, about 1250 pounds sterling; and of two crystal cups broke by Nero in his fury, on hearing of some losses, to punish the then present age, that no other men might drink out of them: some render it "amber", which is found in Prussia, and being at a great distance from Job's country, might be the more valuable there; and Pliny b speaks of it as had in as great esteem as gems: the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin versions, and others, translate it "glass" c which had its original from Phoenicia, near Judea; so Pliny says d from the lake Cendevia, within the roots of Mount Carmel, in Phoenicia, near Judea, springs the river Belus, from whence glass came first; and he speaks of Sidon (a city in Phoenicia) as famous for it; and Tacitus e observes, that the river Belus glides in the Jewish sea, and about the mouth of it sand is gathered and mixed with nitre, and boiled into glass; and this being near the country where Job dwelt, it is thought be had knowledge of it; and from this passage some f have concluded the great antiquity of glass; and if it is true what Aelianus g relates, that when the monument of the ancient Belus (the first king of Babylon) was dug up by Xerxes, the son of Darius, that there was found a glass urn, where lay a body in oil, it must be in use before the times of Job. An Arabic chronologer h affirms what be had from men conversant in history, that in Egypt, after the flood, there were men learned in various sciences, and among the rest in alchemy, and had knowledge of burning glasses; though the invention of these, and of a glass globe, is ascribed to Archimedes i, who lived somewhat later than two hundred years before Christ. There was great plenty of glass very early in Ethiopia, after mentioned, in which they enclosed their dead, that they might be seen through it k; and if it was in use in Job's time, and especially if it was then a late invention, it might be highly valued, and therefore placed here with things of the greatest worth. In the times of Nero, Pliny says l two small glass cups were sold for six thousand sesterces, or forty five pounds sterling, and according to others near fifty pounds; and the same writer relates, that in the times of Tiberias an art was found out to make glass flexible and malleable; but was ordered to be destroyed, lest the value of gold, silver, and brass, should be lessened by it. The Targum renders the word here used a looking glass; :-. Some think the diamond or adamant is meant, and others that it is a general name for all sorts of precious stones, they being clear, transparent, and lucid, as the word signifies:
and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold; set in fine gold; or "vessels" of it, more valuable than gold itself, being made of gold, purified, refined, and wrought by art into curious forms; and yet wisdom is so valuable as not to be exchanged for these. Mr. Broughton takes this fine gold, or gold of Phaz, to be the same with Fess in Barbary, which had its name from a heap of gold there found when its foundation was laid; for "fess" with the Arabs signifies gold m.
a Ut supra, (Nat. Hist. l. 37.) c. 2. b Ib. c. 5. c זכוכית υαλος, Sept. "vitrum", V. L. Tigurine version, Cocceius. d Ut supra, (Nat. Hist.) l. 36. c. 26. Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 2. c. 10. sect. 2. e Hist. l. 5. c. 7. f Neri Praefat. ad. lib. de re vitriaria. g Var. Hist. l. 12. c. 3. h Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 33. i Vid. Fabritii Bibliothec. Gr. l. 3. c. 22. sect. 11. 15. k Diodor. Sic. l. 2. p. 102. Herodot. Thalia, sive, l. 3. c. 24. l Ut supra. (Nat. Hist. l. 36. c. 26.) m Leo African. Descript. Africae, l. 3. p. 273.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The gold and the crystal - A crystal, in chemistry, is an inorganic body which, by the operation of affinity, has assumed the form of a regular solid, terminated by a number of plane and smooth surfaces. It is round in various forms and sizes, and is composed of a great variety of substances. The common “rock crystal” is a general name for all the transparent crystals of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz. “Webster.” The word used here (זכוּכית zekûkı̂yth) occurs nowhere else in the Bible. It is from זכה zâkâh, to be clean, pure; and is given to the crystal on account of its transparency. In Arabic the word means either glass or crystal. Jerome translates it, “vitrum” - glass; the Septuagint ὕαλος hualos - crystal, or the “lapis crystallinus.” Hesychius says that the crystal denotes λαμπρὸν κρύος lampron kruos - “clear ice” or, λίθον τίμιον lithon timion - “a precious stone.” There is no reason to suppose that “glass” was known so early as this, and the probability is that the word here denotes something like the rock crystal, having a strong resemblance to the diamond, and perhaps then regarded as nearly of equal value. It cannot be supposed that the relative value of gems was then understood as it is now.
Jewels of fine gold - Margin, “vessels.” The Hebrew word כלי kelı̂y properly means vessels, or instruments. It may refer here, however, to ornaments for the person, as it was in that way chiefly that gold was employed.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 28:17. Job 28:16; Job 28:16.
