Job 28:18
Coral and quartz are unworthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
BSB
ASV
No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
KJV
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
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.
No mention shall be made of coral - That is, as a price by which to purchase wisdom, or in comparison with wisdom. The margin here is, “Ramoth” - retaining the Hebrew word ראמה râ'mâh. Jerome renders it, “excelsa” - exalted or valuable things. So the Septuagint, Μετέωρα Meteōra - exalted or sublime things; as if the word were from רום, to be exalted.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 31:10A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
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Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire compares with her.
Through
Lamentations 4:7Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
leads to
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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Proverbs 3:15She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire compares with her.
leads to
For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
