Job 22:24
and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
Majority Standard Bible
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 Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
25then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:28They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
2 Chronicles 1:5But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, was in Gibeon before the tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.
2 Chronicles 9:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the 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 →