Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
Job 28:6
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
- KJV
- The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.dust…: or, gold ore
- WEB
- Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
- ASV
- The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.
- LSV
- A place of the sapphire [are] its stones, || And it has dust of gold.
- YLT
- A place of the sapphire [are] its stones, And it hath dust of gold.
- DBY
- The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.
- DRC
- The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.
- GNV
- The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.
- JPS
- The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.
- LXXE
- Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and her dust supplies man with gold.
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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
- מְקוֹם־סַפִּ֥יר אֲבָנֶ֑יהָ וְעַפְרֹ֖ת זָהָ֣ב לֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Τόπος σαπφείρου οἱ λίθοι αὐτῆς, καὶ χῶμα χρυσίον αὐτῷ.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 28:16It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
- Exodus 24:10and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
- Isaiah 54:11“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
- Revelation 21:19The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
- Song of Songs 5:14His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
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