Verse 6
6. Sapphires The precious stone we call the sapphire is generally of a sky-blue colour, transparent, and harder than ruby. The ancients seem to have called the lapis lazuli by that name. But this was too plentiful, as Winer (i, 282) well says, to admit of its being accounted one of the precious stones of Job. There was discovered (A.D. 1859) at the opening of the tomb of Amosis, in Thebes, an axe made of lapis lazuli.
Dust of gold “Modern science, instead of confuting, only confirms the aphorism of the patriarch Job, who has shadowed forth the downward persistence of the one, (silver,) and the superficial distribution of the other, (gold.) Surely there is a vein for the silver, the earth hath dust of gold.” Sir Roderick Murchison. Hitzig supposes the words of this verse to be the reply of the miner, justifying his ingratitude by the consideration of the sapphires and gold he expects to gain out of the earth.
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