Job 28:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The crystal; or, amber, which in those parts was of very great price; or, the diamond. The Hebrew word is not elsewhere used, and it hath in it the signification of purity, or clearness, or brightness. Jewels; or, vessels; wherein there is not only the excellency of the materials, but the curiosity of art, which renders the other much more valuable.

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.