Job 22:24
Good News Translation
Throw away your gold; dump your finest gold in the dry stream bed.

New Revised Standard Version
if you treat gold like dust, and gold of Ophir like the stones of the torrent-bed,

Contemporary English Version
So get rid of your finest gold, as though it were sand.

New American Bible
And treat raw gold as dust, the fine gold of Ophir as pebbles in the wadi,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.

lay up

1 Kings 10:21 Moreover, all the vessels out of which king Solomon drank, were of gold: and all the furniture of the house of the forest of Libanus was of most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any account made of it in the days of Solomon:

2 Chronicles 1:5 And the altar of brass, which Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and all the assembly sought it:

2 Chronicles 9:10,27 And the servants also of Hiram, with the servants of Solomon, brought gold from Ophir, and thyine trees, and most precious stones: . . .

as dust.

Genesis 10:29 And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Jectan.

1 Kings 9:28 And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.

1 Kings 22:48 But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for gold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.

Psalm 45:9 The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.

Isaiah 13:12 A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
23If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle. 24He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.25And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.…
Cross References
1 Kings 10:11
(The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and precious stones.

Job 22:25
And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.

Job 31:24
If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:

Job 31:25
If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.

Job 22:23
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