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Job 22:24 · KJV

“Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the {gold} of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. {as dust: or, on the dust}”

— Job 22:24

Verse 23

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Verse 25

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. {defence: or, gold} {plenty...: Heb. silver of strength}

Job 22 — Context

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. {as dust: or, on the dust}

25

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. {defence: or, gold} {plenty...: Heb. silver of strength}

26

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:12

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

1 Kings 9:28

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought {it} to king Solomon.

1 Kings 22:48

{There was} then no king in Edom: a deputy {was} king.

2 Chronicles 1:5

Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it. {he put: or, was there}

2 Chronicles 9:27

And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that {are} in the low plains in abundance. {made silver: Heb. gave silver}

Job 31:25

If I rejoiced because my wealth {was} great, and because mine hand had gotten much; {gotten...: Heb. found much}

1 Kings 10:21

And all king Solomon's drinking vessels {were of} gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon {were of} pure gold; none {were of} silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. {none...: or, there was no silver in them}

Genesis 10:29

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these {were} the sons of Joktan.

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