Job 28:6

Douay-Rheims Bible

The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Its rocks are a source of lapis lazuli,containing flecks of gold.

Hebrew Names Version
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

King James Version
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

English Standard Version
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

New Century Version
Sapphires are found in rocks, and gold dust is also found there.

New English Translation
a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;

Amplified Bible
"Its stones are the bed of sapphires; It holds dust of gold.

New American Standard Bible
"Its rocks are the source of sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

World English Bible
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.

Legacy Standard Bible
Its rocks are the source of sapphires,And its dust contains gold.

Berean Standard Bible
Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

Contemporary English Version
that have jewels or gold.

Complete Jewish Bible
its rocks have veins of sapphire, and there are flecks of gold.

Darby Translation
The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.

Easy-to-Read Version
In the rocks there are sapphires and grains of pure gold.

George Lamsa Translation
The stones of it are the place where sapphires are found, and it has dust of gold in its paths.

Good News Translation
The stones of the earth contain sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

Lexham English Bible
Its stones are the place of sapphire, and the earthen dirt has gold.

Literal Translation
The place of sapphires is in its stones, and it has dust of gold.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There is founde a place, whose stones are clene Saphirs, and where ye clottes of the earth are golde.

American Standard Version
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

Bible in Basic English
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.

King James Version (1611)
The stones of it are the place of Saphires: and it hath dust of golde.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The stones of it are a place of Saphires, and the dust of it is golde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and her dust supplies man with gold.

English Revised Version
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The place of saphir ben stoonys therof, and the clottis therof ben gold.

Update Bible Version
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it has dust of gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

New King James Version
Its stones are the source of sapphires, And it contains gold dust.

New Living Translation
Here the rocks contain precious lapis lazuli, and the dust contains gold.

New Life Bible
Sapphires come from its rocks and its dust has gold.

New Revised Standard
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and its dust contains gold.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The place of sapphires, are the stones thereof, and it hath, nuggets of gold: -

Revised Standard Version
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

Young's Literal Translation
A place of the sapphire [are] its stones, And it hath dust of gold.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Its rocks are the source of sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

Contextual Overview

¹ Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted. ² Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass. ³ He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death. ⁴ The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at. ⁵ The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire. ⁶ The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold. ⁷ The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it. ⁸ The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it. ⁹ He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots. ¹⁰ In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sapphires: Job 28:16, Exodus 24:10, Song of Solomon 5:14, Isaiah 54:11, Revelation 21:19

dust of gold: or, gold ore

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:18 - sapphire

Cross-References

Genesis 27:33
Isaac was struck with fear, and astonished exceedingly; and wondering beyond what can be believed, said: Who is he then that even now brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate of all before thou camest? and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.

Genesis 28:1
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires,.... In some parts of the earth its stones are a quarry of sapphires, put here for all precious stones: this is a most excellent precious stone, of a sky colour, with golden specks, and was one of the stones in the breast plate of the high priest; and by which are represented the pavement under the feet of the God of Israel, the throne of Christ, his bowels and affections for his people, the comeliness of them, and the glory of his church in the latter day, Exodus 24:10;

and it hath dust of gold; some parts of the earth abound with the dust of gold; its dust is gold, or it hath gold as plenty as dust; though some think this refers to the sapphire in the preceding clause, which, as Pliny says d, has "pulvis aureus", dust of gold, in it, and shines and sparkles with golden points, or specks; and so say other writers e; but the word used rather signifies clods, lumps, masses of gold, which better agree with the earth; and, besides, no very good reason can be given why there should be such a particular description of the sapphire; whereas the earth is the original of that, and of all the other things before spoken of.

d Nat. Hist. l. 37. c. 9. e Ruaeus de Gemmis, l. 2. c. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The stones of it are the place - Among the stones of the earth sapphires are found. “The situation of the sapphire is in alluvial soil, in the vicinity of rocks, belonging to the secondary floetz trap formation, and imbedded in gneiss.” Jameson. “The sapphire occurs in considerable abundance in the granitic alluvion of Matura and Saffragam, in Ceylon.” Davy.

Sapphires - Compare the note at Isaiah 54:11. The sapphire is a precious stone, usually of a blue color, though it is sometimes yellow, red, violet. green, or white. In hardness it is inferior to the diamond only:

“In unroll’d tufts, flowers purpled, blue and white,

Like sapphire, pearl, in rich embroidery.”

Shakespeare

“He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue,

And on the sapphire spreads a heavenly blue.”

Blackmore

The mineral is, next to the diamond, the most valuable of the precious stones. The most highly prized varieties are the crimson and carmine red; these are the “Oriental ruby” of the traveler, and next to the diamond are the most valuable jewels hitherto discovered. The blue varieties - the sapphire of the jeweler - are next in value to the red. The yellow varieties - the “Oriental Topaz” of the jeweler - are of less value than the blue or true sapphire. Edinburgh Encyclopedia, article “Mineralogy.”

And it hath dust of gold - Margin, or “gold ore.” Literally, “The dusts of gold are in it.” Gold is often found in the form of dust. It is obtained by washing it from the sand, and passing it over a fleece of wool, to which the gold adheres.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 28:6. The stones - the place of sapphires — In the language of mineralogists, the gangue, matrix, or bed in which the sapphire is found. For a description of this stone, see on Job 28:16.

Dust of gold — Or rather, gold dust.