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Lay your treasure in the dust, The gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
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Treasure God, Not Gold
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that Eliphaz is urging Job to change his relationship with wealth. The imagery of laying treasure 'in the dust' and treating the finest gold 'among the stones of the brooks' is a powerful call to devalue material possessions. The core message is to stop trusting in riches for security and instead place one's ultimate hope and value in God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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”…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then you shall lay up gold as dust Have such plenty of it, as not to be counted:
and the [gold] o…
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The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had previously not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. …
13th Century
Catholic
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…
