Job 28:16 meaning and explanation
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
Job 28:16, Berean Standard Bible
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Job 28 is a poem about wisdom, placed in the mouth of the suffering Job or the narrator, and it contrasts human skill at mining treasure with the impossibility of mining wisdom. Verse 16 continues a list of precious things that cannot purchase wisdom: gold from Ophir, a region famous in the Old Testament for fine gold, along with onyx and sapphire.
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