Job 28:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Job 28:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Isaiah 13:12
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Psalms 45:9
Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
1 Chronicles 29:4
Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
Exodus 28:20
And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.

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Graces Ignorance Knowledge Minerals Onyx Ophir Prudence Sapphire

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-19)

Job, having spoken of the wealth of the world, which men put such a value upon and take so much pains for, here comes to speak of another more valuable jewel, and that is, wisdom and understanding, the knowing and enjoying of God and ourselves. Those that found out all those ways and means to enrich themselves thought themselves very wise; but Job will not own theirs to be wisdom. He supposes them…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. gold of Ophir--the most precious (See on Job 22:24 and Psa 45:9). onyx--(Ge 2:12). More valued formerly than now. The term is Greek, meaning “thumb nail,” from some resemblance in color. The Arabic denotes, of two colors, white preponderating.