Job 28:16 It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or lapis lazuli.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or lapis lazuli.

English Standard Version
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

New American Standard Bible
"It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, In precious onyx, or sapphire.

King James Bible
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Wisdom cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

International Standard Version
It cannot be compared to gold from Ophir, with precious onyx, or with sapphire.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.

Darby Bible Translation
It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.

Young's Literal Translation
It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire,

Cross References

Job 28:15
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

Job 28:17
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

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 13:12
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Isaiah 54:11
O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

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:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

28:12-19 Job here speaks of wisdom and understanding, the knowing and enjoying of God and ourselves. Its worth is infinitely more than all the riches in this world. It is a gift of the Holy Ghost which cannot be bought with money. Let that which is most precious in God's account, be so in ours. Job asks after it as one that truly desired to find it, and despaired of finding it any where but in God; any way but by Divine revelation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

16. gold of Ophir—the most precious (See on [524]Job 22:24 and [525]Ps 45:9).

onyx—(Ge 2:12). More valued formerly than now. The term is Greek, meaning "thumb nail," from some resemblance in color. The Arabic denotes, of two colors, white preponderating.