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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Job 22:24

Gold, to build and adorn thy habitation, ver. 23. Hebrew, "He will give thee gold instead of dust; (or more abundant) yea, gold of the torrents of Ophir." The Phasis is said to roll gold dust, which is of the purest kind, Genesis ii. 11. (Calmet) --- "Thou shalt lay upon gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the stones of the brooks." (Protestants) (Haydock) --- This is an exaggeration, (3 Kings x. 27.; Calmet) and a sort of proverb, intimating that strength and plenty should succeed to infirmity. The foundations should be the hard rock, instead of earth, &c.

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See also Job 22:24 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:24. _THEN SHALT THOU LAY UP GOLD AS DUST_] The original is not fairly rendered in this translation, ושית על עפר בצר _veshith_ _al aphar batser_, which _Montanus_ renders: _Et pone super p...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE THIRD SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 22 The Third Address of Eliphaz _ 1. Is not thy wickedness great? (Job 22:1)_ 2. In what Job had sinned (Job 22:6) 3. The omniscience of God and the ways...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 22. THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ. The only new thing that Eliphaz has to say, is definitely to describe the sin of Job! Yet his mildness makes him end with bright promises. JOB 22:1. Is it not to Job'...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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 wo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Eliphaz exhorts Job to reconcile himself with God; assuring him of restoration and great felicity if he will do so. The passage consists of two parts, first, a series of exhortations, each of which i...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Third Circle of Speeches In the first round of speeches the three friends exhausted the argument from the general conception of God. In the second they exhausted the argument from the operation o...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN SHALT THOU LAY UP GOLD, &C.— _And count the fine gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks:_ Job 22:25. _For, the Almighty shall be thy fine gold,_ &c. Heath; who observes,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. Repent, and restoration will be certain. (Job 22:21-30) TEXT 22:21-30 21 ACQUAINT NOW THYSELF WITH HIM, AND BE AT PEACE: Thereby good shall come onto thee. 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN SHALT THOU LAY UP GOLD AS DUST, AND THE GOLD OF OPHIR AS THE STONES OF THE BROOKS._ Rather, containing the protasis from the last clause of Job 22:23, If thou regard the glittering metal as dust...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'and lay thou _thy_ treasure in the dust, and _the gold of_ Ophir among the stones.' Fling thy earthly treasure away!...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LAST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ 1-11. Eliphaz ignoring Job's last speech, perhaps because he could not answer it, argues that God's treatment of man must be impartial, since He has nothing to gain or lose...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 22 ELIPHAZ’S LAST SPEECH G...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These are good words. Eliphaz realised that real success is not money. Nobody should trust their wealth. We should trust God. Eliphaz emphasised his ideas with humour. Men used to find gold in the roc...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE GOLD OF OPHIR. — And, moreover, that the wealth for which he was so famous among the children of the East was the accumulation of iniquity and wrong-doing. The sense probably is, “Put thy treasure...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שִׁית ־עַל ־עָפָ֥ר בָּ֑צֶר וּ בְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XIX. DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR Job 22:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE second colloquy has practically exhausted the subject of debate between Job and his friends. The three have really nothing more to say in t...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “ACQUAINT THYSELF WITH GOD” Job 22:1 Eliphaz opens the third cycle of the discussion with a speech altogether too hard and cruel. He begins with an _enumeration of Job's fancied misdeeds,_ Job 22:1....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third cycle in the controversy, and again EIiphaz is the first speaker. His address consisted of two movements. First, he made a definite charge against Job (1-20); and, second, he mad...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then shalt thou lay up gold as (s) dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. (s) Which will be in abundance like dust....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SHALT THOU LAY UP GOLD AS DUST,.... Have such plenty of it, as not to be counted: AND THE [GOLD] OF OPHIR AS THE STONES OF THE BROOKS; which was reckoned the best, probably in Arabia; not in the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. Ver. 24. _Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust_] Which is as much as to say, saith one, Thou shalt make paveme...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then shalt thou lay up gold_ The word בצר, _batzer_, here rendered _gold_, is a word of dubious meaning. R. Levi, indeed, makes it parallel to _zahab, gold:_ Ab. Ezra, to _cheseph, silver._ “In Arabi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, casting down the gold ore as it comes from the mines as so much worthless trash, AND THE GOLD OF OPHIR AS THE STONES OF THE BROOKS, dropping it among the pebbles o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AN ADMONITION TO REPENT...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S SIN EXPOSED BEFORE GOD (vv.1-8) Eliphaz considered that he was representing God in speaking, and exposing what he imagined were the sins of Job. He first asks a question that it is well worth...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AS DUST: Or, on the dust...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "PLACE YOUR GOLD IN THE DUST": Which appears to mean, "quit trusting in your wealth". "How could Eliphaz prove that Job trusted in his material things? In fact he now had no gold in which to trust!" _...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    21-30 The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had hitherto not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. The counsel Eliphaz here gives is good, though,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    GOLD; solid or choice gold, as the word signifies. AS DUST, i.e. in great abundance. Or, _upon the dust_, or ground; it shall be so plentiful, and therefore vile, that thou shalt not lock it up in che...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:24 lay H7896 (H8800) gold H1220 in H5921 dust H6083 Ophir H211 stones H6697 brooks H5158 lay up -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Eliphaz's third discourse, accusing Job again of hypocrisy. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: It is the duty of those especially who are in affliction to keep up a perfect acquain...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 22:5. _Is not thy wickedness great?_ This speech of Eliphaz is cruel, and very much embittered; for it was mere suspicion that Job had robbed the widow, and stripped the naked. Job replies to it m...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If thou return to the Almighty._ SPIRITUAL REFORMATION I. The nature of a true spiritual reformation is here set forth. 1. Reconciliation to God. Men in their unregenerate state are out of sympath...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE_ Remonstrates with Job on his self-righteousness, and plainly charges him with grievous transgressions as the cause of his present sufferings; concludes with pro...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 22:1 Eliphaz returns to the attack, but with observations that are at first strangely pointless and irrelevant, _e.g._ on the unprofitableness of man to God (verses l, 2), and on the s...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Eliphaz takes up the argument now. And the same old story: he accuses Job of being wicked and he actually makes many bad accusations. He said, Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise m...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 10:21; 1 Kings 22:48; 1 Kings 9:28; 2 Chronicles 1:5;...

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