Job 22:24
22 Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
25 then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
26 Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
- KJV
- Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
- WEB
- Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
- ASV
- And lay thou [thy] treasure in the dust, And [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
- DARBY
- And put the precious ore with the dust, and [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the torrents,
- BLB
- and [if] you set your gold upon the dust, and Ophir among the stones of the torrents,
- ÅB
- Kast ditt gull i støvet og ditt Ofir-gull blant bekkenes steiner!
- OTB
- og kaster ditt gull til støvet,
Ofirs gull til bekkens steiner, - B1930
- Kast ditt gull i støvet og ditt Ofir-gull blandt bekkenes stener!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 9:28
They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents —and delivered it to Solomon.
Read in contextIsaiah 13:12
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
Read in contextPsalms 45:9
The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
Read in contextGenesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
Read in context2 Chronicles 9:10
(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.
Read in context1 Kings 10:21
All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
Read in contextJob 31:25
if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
Read in context1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
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