Job 22:24
So as to set a defense on the dust, || And a covering on a rock of the valleys.
Literal Standard 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 the Mighty you are built up, || You put iniquity far from your tents.
25And the Mighty has been your defense, || And silver [is] strength to you.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:28and they come to Ophir, and take four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and bring [it] to King Solomon.
1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, and they did not go, for the ships were broken in Ezion-Geber.
2 Chronicles 1:5and the altar of bronze that Bezaleel son of Uri, son of Hur made, he put before the Dwelling Place of YHWH; and Solomon and the assembly seek Him [there].
2 Chronicles 9:27And the king makes the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he has made the cedars as sycamores that [are] in the low country, for abundance,
Psalms 45:9Daughters of kings [are] among Your precious ones, || A queen has stood at Your right hand, || In pure gold of 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 →