John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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 ושית על עפר בצר "pone aurum super pulverem", Codurcus; "in pulvere... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 22:21-30
Methinks I can almost forgive Eliphaz his hard censures of Job, which we had in the beginning of the chapter, though they were very unjust and unkind, for this good counsel and encouragement which he gives him in these verses with which he closes his discourse, and than which nothing could be better said, nor more to the purpose. Though he thought him a bad man, yet he saw reason to have hopes concerning him, that, for all this, he would be both pious and prosperous. But it is strange that out... read more