Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
Job 28:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
- KJV
- It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- WEB
- It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.or, lapis lazuli
- ASV
- It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- LSV
- It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, || With precious onyx and sapphire,
- YLT
- It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire,
- DBY
- It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.
- DRC
- It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.
- GNV
- It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.
- JPS
- It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- LXXE
- Neither shall it be compared with gold of Sophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- לֹֽא־תְ֭סֻלֶּה בְּכֶ֣תֶם אוֹפִ֑יר בְּשֹׁ֖הַם יָקָ֣ר וְסַפִּֽיר׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ οὐ συνβασταχθήσεται χρυσίῳ Σωφεὶρ, ἐν ὄνυχι τιμίῳ καὶ σαπφείρῳ.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
- Ezekiel 28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold,…
- 1 Chronicles 29:4three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,
- Exodus 28:20and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
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