Job 28:6 · KJV
“The stones of it {are} the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. {dust...: or, gold ore}”
— Job 28:6
{As for} the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
{There is} a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
Job 28 — Context
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.
6The 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:
8The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Cross References
Exodus 24:10
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.
Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Song of Solomon 5:14
His hands {are as} gold rings set with the beryl: his belly {is as} bright ivory overlaid {with} sapphires.
Isaiah 54:11
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, {and} not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Revelation 21:19
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;