The exchange of it. — Or, according to some, the attraction of it. The remainder of this chapter calls for little remark: its unrivalled sublimity is patent, and comment is superfluous. There is a general resemblance between this chapter and Proverbs 8, and both seem to imply a knowledge of the Mosaic narrative of creation.
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Job 28:17
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewelsf of fine gold.