Job 22:24
and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
BSB
ASV
And lay thou thy treasure in the dust, And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
KJV
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
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1 Kings 9:28They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
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So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to…
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It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
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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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Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne…
to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
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Isaiah 13:12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
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In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away…
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FRAGMENTS ON JOB 16.61, 69 (253)
This is what he means, in my opinion: "Confess your sins; receive from God's mouth his support after your confession; and take his words into your heart." Certainly Eliphaz said these things, as he believed, by making himself equal to Job.… However, he pronounces a correct dogma here. He, in fact, thinks that Job suffers his adversities because of his sins but also so that he will be purified through the endurance of his afflictions. Once he is purified, he will be delivered from any extraneous element and freed from any involvement with iniquity.
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 pulverem munitionem, “And fix a tower upon the dust;” ובצור נחלים אופיר ubetsur nechalim Ophir, et in petra torrentes Ophir, “and in the rock, the torrents of Ophir.” The Vulgate is widely different: Dabit pro terra silicem, et pro silice torrentes aureos, “He will give thee flint for earth: and torrents of gold for flint;” which Calmet thus paraphrases: “Instead of brick thou shalt build with solid stone; and for ornaments, instead of stone as formerly, thou shalt have massive gold!” All the versions are different.
Ophir--derived from a Hebrew word "dust," namely, gold dust. HEEREN thinks it a general name for the rich countries of the South, on the African, Indian, and especially the Arabian coast (where was the port Aphar. El Ophir, too, a city of Oman, was formerly the center of Arabian commerce).