Job 22:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

if you treat gold like dust and gold of Ophir like the stones of the torrent bed,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, And the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If you lay gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brook [considering them of little worth],

American Standard Version (1901)

And lay thou thy treasure in the dust, And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;

Common English Bible

Lay your prized possession in the dust, your gold from Ophir on a rock in a desert streambed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

He will give you stone in place of dirt, and torrents of gold in place of stone.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 22:24 Cross References

Genesis 10:29

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the descendants of Joktan.

1 Kings 10:11

Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which carried gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a great quantity of almug wood and precious stones.

1 Kings 10:21

All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver—it was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 22:48

Jehoshaphat made ships of the Tarshish type to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.

1 Kings 9:28

They went to Ophir and imported from there four hundred twenty talents of gold that they delivered to King Solomon.

1 Chronicles 1:23

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the descendants of Joktan.

2 Chronicles 1:5

Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur had made was there in front of the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly inquired at it.

2 Chronicles 9:10

Moreover, the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir brought algum wood and precious stones.

2 Chronicles 9:27

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone and cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.

Job 22:25

and if the Almighty is your gold and your precious silver,

Job 31:24

“If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence,

Job 31:25

if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great or because my hand had gotten much,

Psalm 45:9

daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 13:12

I will make mortals more rare than fine gold and humans than the gold of Ophir.