KJV King James Version
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 22:24
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
WEB World English Bible
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
ASV American Standard Version
And lay thou thy treasure in the dust, And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.
Surrounding context — Job 22
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 plenty of silver.
26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
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Isaiah 13:12I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.1 Kings 9:28And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.2 Chronicles 9:27And 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.2 Chronicles 9:10And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.1 Kings 10:21And 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.1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.Job 31:25If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because mine hand had gotten much;Genesis 10:29And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan.Psalm 45:9Kings’ daughters [were] among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.2 Chronicles 1:5Moreover 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.
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