Job 22:24

In 11 translations

BSB

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

KJV

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.as dust: or, on the dust

WEB

Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

ASV

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

LSV

So as to set a defense on the dust, || And a covering on a rock of the valleys.

YLT

So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

DBY

And put the precious ore with the dust, and [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the torrents,

DRC

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

GNV

Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.

JPS

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

LXXE

Thou shalt lay up for thyself treasure in a heap on the rock; and Sophir shall be as the rock of the torrent.

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WLC

וְשִׁית־עַל־עָפָ֥ר בָּ֑צֶר וּבְצ֖וּר נְחָלִ֣ים אוֹפִֽיר׃

LXX-Br

Θήσῃ ἐπὶ χώματι ἐν πέτρᾳ, καὶ ὡς πέτρα χειμάῤῥου Σωφίρ.

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• Isaiah 13:12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
• 1 Kings 9:28They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents —and delivered it to Solomon.
• 1 Kings 10:21All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
• 2 Chronicles 1:5But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, was in Gibeon before the tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.
• 1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
• Job 31:25if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
• Genesis 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
• 2 Chronicles 9:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
• 2 Chronicles 9:10(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.
• Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.

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