6The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
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It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and industrious searches, make themselves masters of. But does it therefore follow that men may, by their wit, comprehend the reasons why some wicked people prosper and others are punished, why some good pe…
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