Job 28:17 - Exposition

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it ; rather, gold and crystal. This second mention of gold (see verse ]5) seems superfluous, but perhaps the patriarch is thinking of some goblet or ornament in which crystal and gold were combined together. Ornaments of this kind bare been found in Phoenicia. And the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold ; or, vessels of fine gold. Both in Egypt and Phoenicia vessels of gold were common.