Job 22:24
and give up your love of money and desire for possessions,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
In Context
23If you return to God you will be restored. If you renounce your sinful life
25then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:28They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents of gold from there and delivered it to Solomon.
1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat built seagoing ships to sail to Ophir for gold, but they didn't go because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
2 Chronicles 1:5However, the bronze altar made by Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, was there in front of the Tent of the Lord, so that is where Solomon and the assembly went to worship.
2 Chronicles 9:27The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar wood as plentiful as sycamore-figs in the foothills.
Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among the noblewomen; the queen stands beside you on your right, wearing jewelry made of gold from Ophir.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:22-30
The Good Counsel of Eliphaz; Encouragements to Return to God. ( b. c. 1520.) 21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. 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. 24 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… Read the whole commentary →