King James Version
What Does Job 28:6 Mean?
“The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. dust: or, gold ore”
Context
4
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. dust: or, gold ore
7
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
8
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(6) **The stones of it are the place of sapphires.**—So ingenious is man that he discovereth a place of which the stones are sapphires and the very dust gold, and a path that no bird of prey knoweth, and which the falcon’s eye hath not seen.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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