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Job 31:24

Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

If I beheld the sun when it shined,.... Some take this to be a reason why Job did not make gold his hope and confidence, because all sublunary and earthly enjoyments must be uncertain, fading, and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

If I have made gold my hope - That is, if I have put my trust in gold rather than in God; if I have fixed my affections with idolatrous attachment on riches rather than on my Maker. Job here…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 31:24-32

Four articles more of Job's protestation we have in these verses, which, as all the rest, not only assure us what he was and did, but teach us what we should be and do: -

I. He protests that he never…