Job 28:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: And it hath dust of gold.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Its stones are the bed of sapphires; it holds dust of gold [which he wins].

American Standard Version (1901)

The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

Common English Bible

Its rocks are the source for lapis lazuli; there is gold dust in it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Its stones are embedded with sapphires, and its soil, with gold.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and the clods of it are gold.

Job 28:6 Cross References

Job 28:16

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

Job 28:5

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

Job 28:7

That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon's eye seen it:

Exodus 24:10

and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.

Song of Solomon 5:14

His hands are as rings of gold set with beryl: His body is as ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

Isaiah 54:11

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

Revelation 21:19

The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;