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How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningJob 28:18Proverbs 20:15Proverbs 31:10Lamentations 4:7

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Job 28:18

   Coral and quartz are unworthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.

   ›Commentary on Job 28:182 voices

   “The Urim and Thummim, the means of consulting God by the twelve stones on the high priest's breastplate, ‘the stones of the sanctuary’ (La 4:1), have their counterpart in this chapter; the precious stones symbolizing the ‘light’ and ‘perfection’ of the divine wisdom.”

   “No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls,.... Coral is a marine plant, is as hard as a stone, and of such value as to be reckoned among precious stones; See Gill on Eze 27:16. In Arabia Felix, on the shore of the Red sea, is a place called Coralia (n); it may be from coral found there.”

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2. Proverbs 20:15

   There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.

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3. Proverbs 31:10

   A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 31:102 voices

   “I have heard sacred Scripture saying, ‘Who shall find a valiant woman?’ and also that she is a gift of God, and that a good marriage is arranged by the Lord. Those outside, too, have the same thought—if indeed the saying is theirs: ‘There is no greater boon for a man than a good wife, no worse, than the opposite.’ It is impossible to mention anyone who was more fortunate than my father in this respect.”

   “Who can find a virtuous woman,.... This part of the chapter is disjoined from the rest in the Septuagint and Arabic versions; and Huetius (t) thinks it is a composition of some other person, and not Lemuel's mother, whose words he supposes end at Pro 31:9; but it is generally thought that what follows to the end of the chapter is a continuance of her words, in which she describes a person as a fit wife for her son.”

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4. Lamentations 4:7

   Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

   ›Commentary on Lamentations 4:72 voices

   “God's blessing formerly caused their body not to be the less fair and ruddy for their abstinence from strong drink. Compare the similar case of Daniel, &c. Type of Messiah (So 5:10). rubies--GESENIUS translates, ‘corals,’ from a Hebrew root, ‘to divide into branches,’ from the branching form of corals. polishing--They were like exquisitely cut and polished sapphires.”

   “Her Nazarites were purer than snow,.... Such who separated themselves by a vow to the Lord, and abstained from drinking wine and strong drink, and by a moderate diet, and often washing themselves, as well as taking great care of their hair, appeared very neat and comely, like snow, without any spot or blemish.”

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