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- Job
- Chapter 22
- Verse 24
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
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Gill's Exposition
Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence,.... In temporal things, secure the plenty of gold and silver possessed of; surround and protect by his providence, that there shall be no danger of the Sabeans…
Barnes' Notes
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust - Margin, or, “on the dust.” Dr. Good renders this, “Thou shalt then count thy treasure as dust” - implying that he would have much of it. Noyes, “Cast to the dust…
Methinks I can almost forgive Eliphaz his hard censures of Job, which we had in the beginning of the chapter, though they were very unjust and unkind, for this good counsel and encouragement which he…
These verses read,
24. And lay thou thy treasure in the dust,
And gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
25. Then shall the Almighty be thy treasure,
And silver in plenty unto thee.
The…
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