6 EARLIEST KNOWLEDGE, &C. 



Among the people with whom Job was con- 

 nected, silver seems to have passed from hand to 

 hand by weight, as money; whilst gold was 

 appropriated like the onyx, the sapphire, cry- 

 stal, pearls, topazes, rubies, and other jewels, 

 as ornaments for the person. At the con- 

 clusion of that beautiful poem, the restored 

 wealth of Job is reckoned up in cattle, not in 

 * money; and though his visiters brought each 

 a piece of money, probably silver, yet each of 

 them brought also an ear-ring of gold \ 



1 Job, cap. xlii. v. 11 and 12. 



