Job 22:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,”
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“and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And lay thou thy treasure in the dust, Andthe gold ofOphir among the stones of the brooks;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 22:24 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- 1 Kings 9:28They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:21All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of 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.
- 1 Chronicles 1:23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- 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 9:10(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.
- 2 Chronicles 9:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- Job 31:25if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
- Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
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