Job 22:24
22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
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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
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Read in contextIsaiah 13:12
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Read in contextPsalms 45:9
Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Read in contextGenesis 10:29
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
Read in context2 Chronicles 9:10
And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
Read in context1 Kings 10:21
And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Read in contextJob 31:25
If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
Read in context1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
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