Job 28:6

a place whose stones are sapphires ¹  and which contains dust of gold; ² 

biblegateway Job 28:6

sapphires come from its rocks, and its dust contains nuggets of gold.

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"Its rocks are the source of sapphires, And its dust contains gold.

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"People know how to find sapphires and gold dust––

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Firing sapphires from stones and chiseling gold from rocks.

SABDAweb Job 28:6

Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

bibleoremus Job 28:6

Its stones are the place of sapphires, and its dust contains gold.

biblegateway Job 28:6

Its stones are the source of sapphires, And it contains gold dust.

biblegateway Job 28:6

a place whose stones are sapphires ¹  and which contains dust of gold; ² 

¹ tn It is probably best to take “place” in construct to the rest of the colon, with an understood relative clause: “a place, the rocks of which are sapphires.”

¹ sn The modern stone known as sapphire is thought not to have been used until Roman times, and so some other stone is probably meant here, perhaps lapis lazuli.

² sn H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 181) suggests that if it is lapis lazuli, then the dust of gold would refer to the particles of iron pyrite found in lapis lazuli which glitter like gold.