Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

It cannot be compared to gold from Ophir, with precious onyx, or with sapphire.

New American Standard Bible

“It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,
In precious onyx, or sapphire.

King James Version

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Holman Bible

Wisdom cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,
in precious onyx or sapphire.

A Conservative Version

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

American Standard Version

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Amplified


“It cannot be valued in [terms of] the gold of Ophir,
In the precious onyx or beryl, or the sapphire.

Bible in Basic English

It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.

Darby Translation

It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.

Julia Smith Translation

It shall not be weighed with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.

King James 2000

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Lexham Expanded Bible

It cannot be bought for the gold of Ophir, for precious onyx or sapphire.

Modern King James verseion

It cannot be weighed against the gold of Ophir, against precious onyx, or sapphire;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onyx stones, no Sapphire may be compared unto her.

NET Bible

It cannot be measured out for purchase with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphires.

New Heart English Bible

It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

The Emphasized Bible

It cannot be put into the scales against the gold of Ophir, with costly onyx, or sapphire;

Webster

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

World English Bible

It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Youngs Literal Translation

It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
It cannot be valued
סלה 
Calah 
Usage: 4

with the gold
כּתם 
Kethem 
Usage: 9

of Ophir
אופר אפיר אופיר 
'Owphiyr 
Usage: 13

with the precious
יקר 
Yaqar 
Usage: 36

שׁהם 
Shoham 
Usage: 11

References

Context Readings

Job's Discourse On Wisdom

15 You can't buy it with gold, and its value cannot be calculated in silver. 16 It cannot be compared to gold from Ophir, with precious onyx, or with sapphire. 17 It cannot be compared to gold and fine glass crystal, nor can it be exchanged for gold-plated weaponry.

Cross References

Psalm 45:9

The king's daughters are among your honorable women; the queen, dressed in gold from Ophir, has taken her place at your right hand."

Isaiah 13:12

I'll make people scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than gold from Ophir.

Exodus 28:20

the fourth row beryl, onyx, and jasper, and they are to be set in gold filigree.

1 Chronicles 29:4

3,000 gold talents imported from Ophir, 7,000 talents of refined silver for gilding the walls of the Temple

Ezekiel 28:13

You used to be in Eden God's paradise! You wore precious stones for clothing: ruby, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and carbuncle. Your settings were crafted in gold, along with your engravings. On the day of your creation they had been prepared!

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