Job 22:24

You shall lay up for yourself treasure in a heap on the rock; and Sophir shall be as the rock of the torrent.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

23And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have thus removed unrighteousness far from your habitation.

25So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and he shall bring you forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire.

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Cross References

1 Kings 9:28And they came to Sophira, and took thence one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

2 Chronicles 1:5And the brazen altar which Beseleel the son of Urias, the son of Or, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the congregation enquired at it.

2 Chronicles 9:27And the king made gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as the sycamore trees in the plain for abundance.

Psalms 45:9Putting an end to wars as for the ends of the earth; he will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, and burn the bucklers with fire. 1

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 →

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