Job 28:16
It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non conferetur tinctis Indiæ coloribus, nec lapidi sardonycho pretiosissimo vel sapphiro.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ οὐ συνβασταχθήσεται χρυσίῳ Σωφείρ, ἐν ὄνυχι τιμίῳ καὶ σαπφείρῳ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹֽא תְ֭סֻלֶּה בְּכֶ֣תֶם אוֹפִ֑יר בְּשֹׁ֖הַם יָקָ֣ר וְסַפִּֽיר
Haydock's commentary
Dyed, &c. Hebrew cethem ophir, (Haydock) "the shut up" (gold, though the Vulgate, Septuagint, &c., vary in the interpretation) "of Ophir." This country was famous for its gold. (Calmet)
Its situation is not clearly ascertained. St. Jerome seems to have placed it in India, with Josephus, "in the golden country," now Malacca.
Stone. Protestants, onyx. Hebrew shoham (Haydock) means, probably, the emerald, Genesis ii. 12. (Calmet)
But these names are very indeterminate. Theodotion, from whom great part of this chapter is inserted in the Septuagint has "the gold of Ophir, and the precious onyx and sapphire." (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.