Giobbe 22:24

24 Getta l’oro nella polvere e l’oro d’Ophir tra i ciottoli del fiume

Giobbe 22:24 Meaning and Commentary

Job 22:24

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 in the East and West Indies, which were not known to Job; though some take this to be an exhortation to despise riches, and as a dissuasion from covetousness, rendering the words, "put gold upon the dust", or earth ^F9, and trample upon it, as a thing not esteemed by thee, as Sephorno interprets it; make no more account of it than of the dust of the earth; let it be like dirt unto thee, "and among the stones of the brooks", Ophir ^F11; that is, the gold of Ophir, reckon no more of it, though the choicest gold, than the stones of the brook; or thus, "put gold for dust, and the [gold] of Ophir for the flint of the brooks" ^F12; esteem it no more than the dust of the earth, or as flint stones; the latter clause I should choose rather to render, "and for a flint the rivers of Ophir", or the golden rivers, from whence the gold of Ophir was; and it is notorious from historians, as Strabo ^F13 and others, that gold is taken out of rivers; and especially from the writers of the history of the West Indies ^F14.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (rub rpe le tyvw) "pone aurum super pulverem", Codurcus; "in pulvere aurum", Cocceius; "abjice humi aurum", Beza; so Grotius.
F11 (rypwa Mylxn ryubw) "et inter saxa torrentium Ophir", Codurcus.
F12 "Pro rupe aurum Ophirinum", Junius & Tremellius; so Schultens.
F13 Geograph. l. 11. p. 344.
F14 Pet. Martyr. Decad. 3. l. 4.

Giobbe 22:24 In-Context

22 Ricevi istruzioni dalla sua bocca, e riponi le sue parole nel tuo cuore.

23 Se torni all’Onnipotente, se allontani l’iniquità dalle tue tende, sarai ristabilito.

24 Getta l’oro nella polvere e l’oro d’Ophir tra i ciottoli del fiume

25 e l’Onnipotente sarà il tuo oro, egli ti sarà come l’argento acquistato con fatica.

26 Allora farai dell’Onnipotente la tua delizia, e alzerai la faccia verso Dio.