Job 22:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust,f and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. ”

Job 22:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Job 22:24 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Job 22:24 - 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 22:1-5 . Is it n...
Job 22:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust - The original is not fairly rendered in this translation, ושית על עפר בצ...
Job 22:24 - 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; w...
Job 22:24 - 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...
Job 22:24 - 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 l...
Job 22:24 - 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 treas...
Job 22:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XIX. DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR Job 22:1-30 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE second colloquy has practically exhausted the subject of debate between Job and his friends. The three have really nothing more to...
Job 22:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Acquaint Thyself with God” Job 22:1-30 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 22:24 - 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 ma...
Job 22:24 - 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 th...
Job 22:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 i...
Job 22:24 - 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 pave...
Job 22:24 - 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 Arab...
Job 22:24 - L. 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 wo...
Job 22:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Good Counsel of Eliphaz; Encouragements to Return to God. B. C. 1520. 21 Acquaint...
Job 22:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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 i...
Job 22:24 - 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...
Job 22:24 - 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 i...
Job 22:24 - 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 sy...
Job 22:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 22:1-18 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),...
Job 22:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Admonition to Repent
Job 22:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 10:21 ; 1 Kings 22:48 ; 1 Kings 9:28 ; 2 Chronicles 1:5 ; 2 Chronicles 9:10 ; 2 Chronicles 9:27 ; Genesis 10:29 ; Isaiah 13:12 ; Psalms 45:9

Job 22:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 22:24 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 22:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 22:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 22:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 22:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 22:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 22:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 22:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 22:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 22:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 22:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 22:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 22:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 22:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 22:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 22:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 22:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 22:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 22:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 22:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 22:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 22:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 22:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge