Then you shall lay up gold as dust - Margin, or, “on the dust.” Dr. Good renders this, “You shall then count your treasure as dust”…

The gold of Ophir.—And, moreover, this signifies that the wealth for which he was so famous among the children of the East was the…

Then you shall lay up gold as dust
Have such plenty of it, as not to be counted:

and the [gold] o…

The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had previously not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. …

In the preceding words, Eliphaz seems to have charged Job with not believing that God has providence in human affairs. Now, as a consequence, he ap…