Job 22:24 - Tree of Life Version and throw your gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the wadis, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Also Hiram’s ships that brought gold from Ophir brought from Ophir a great quantity of sandalwood and precious stones.
All of King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the Forest House of Lebanon were of pure gold. (None was of silver—that did not count for anything in the days of Solomon.)
So they went to Ophir and took from there 420 talents of gold, and brought it to King Solomon.
But the bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur had made was there in front of the Tabernacle of Adonai, and Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.
The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algumwood and precious stones.
The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as plentiful as the sycamore trees that are in the foothills.
“If I have put my confidence in gold or said to fine gold, ‘You are my security,’
if I rejoiced because of my great wealth or because of the abundance my hand acquired,
All your robes have myrrh, aloes, cassia. From ivory palaces, stringed instruments make you glad.
I will make people scarcer than gold, even than the pure gold of Ophir.