Job 28:6 “Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.”

Job 28:6

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

A place of the sapphire [are] its stones, And it hath dust of gold.

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“sapphires”

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

Job 28:16 · BSB

It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

Exodus 24:10 · BSB

and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

Song of Solomon 5:14 · BSB

His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.

Isaiah 54:11 · BSB

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Revelation 21:19 · BSB

The 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,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

7No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.

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