Ayub 28:17

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

tidak dapat diimbangi oleh emas, atau kaca, ataupun ditukar dengan permata dari emas tua.

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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
tidak dapat diimbangi oleh emas, atau kaca, ataupun ditukar dengan permata dari emas tua.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tiada emas atau hablur yang boleh disamakan dengan dia, dan tiada ia boleh ditukar dengan benda yang dari pada emas tempawan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

crystal: Ezekiel 1:22, Revelation 4:6, Revelation 21:11, Revelation 22:1

jewels: or, vessels

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 z^ekûkı̂yth) 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 k^elı̂y 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.