Job 28:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. The stones - the place of sapphires - In the language of mineralogists, the gangue, matrix, or bed in which the sapphire is found. For a description of this stone, see on Job 28:16 (note).

Dust of gold - Or rather, gold dust.

Job 28:6

6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dustc of gold.