Job 28:16
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It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.

Job 28:15
The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.

Job 28:17
Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of gold be changed for it.

Songs 5:14
His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires.

Isaiah 13:12
A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.

Isaiah 54:11
O poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all comfort, behold I will lay thy stones in order, and will lay thy foundations with sapphires,

Lamentations 4:7
Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

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It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.

the gold

1 Chronicles 29:4 Three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir: and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the temple.

Psalm 45:9 The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.

Isaiah 13:12 A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.

onyx

Exodus 28:20 In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.

Ezekiel 28:13 Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Context
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15The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it. 16It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.17Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of gold be changed for it.…
Lexicon
It cannot
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

be valued
תְ֭סֻלֶּה (ṯə·sul·leh)
Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5541: To make light of, toss aside

in the gold
בְּכֶ֣תֶם (bə·ḵe·ṯem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3800: Something carved out, ore, gold

of Ophir,
אוֹפִ֑יר (’ō·w·p̄îr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 211: Ophir -- a son of Joktan, also his descendants, also a region from which gold comes

in precious
יָקָ֣ר (yā·qār)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3368: Precious, rare, splendid, weighty

onyx
בְּשֹׁ֖הַם (bə·šō·ham)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7718: (a gem) perhaps an onyx

or sapphire.
וְסַפִּֽיר׃ (wə·sap·pîr)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5601: A gem, the sapphire


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

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

Neither shall it be compared with gold of Sophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire.

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

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

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

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

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