16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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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.
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
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:
And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
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 the…
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