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Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
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Earth's Hidden Treasures
Commentators explain that this verse literally describes the earth as a treasure chest. Its stones contain precious gems like sapphires, and its soil holds dust and nuggets of gold. This points to the incredible, valuable resources God has placed within creation, which humanity can discover through diligent effort.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The stones of it are the place - Among the stones of the earth sapphires are found. “The situation of the sapphire is in alluvial s…
19th Century
Anglican
The stones of it are the place of sapphires. —So ingenious is man that he discovers a place of which the stones are sapphires and the very…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires In some parts of the earth its stones are a quarry of sapphires, put h…
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Job maintained that the arrangements of Providence are regulated by the highest wisdom. To confirm this, he showed how much knowledge and wealth pe…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, Job had shown how frail and perishable the lot is that the wicked receive from God (Job 27:13). Now, he intends to show, on…
