Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, [Thou are] my confidence;
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
In Context
23For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.
25if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Cross References
Genesis 31:1And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and he has gotten all this glory of that which was our father's.
Psalms 49:6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,
Psalms 52:7Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Proverbs 10:15The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs 30:9lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.
Luke 12:15And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:17-24
Job's Compassion to the Poor. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 If I… Read the whole commentary →