Job 28:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

Job 28:18 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 3:15
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Ezekiel 27:16
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
Lamentations 4:7
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Revelation 18:12
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

Topics

Coral Graces Ignorance Jewels Knowledge Minerals Pearl Prudence

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. 18)

18. Red coral (Eze 27:16). pearls--literally, “what is frozen.” Probably crystal; and Job 28:17 will then be glass. rubies--Umbreit translates “pearls” (see La 4:1; Pr 3:15). The Urim and Thummim, the means of consulting God by the twelve stones on the high priest’s breastplate, “the stones of the sanctuary” (La 4:1), have their counterpart in this chapter; the precious stones symbolizing the “lig…