Job 22:24
He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dabit pro terra silicem, et pro silice torrentes aureos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- θήσῃ ἐπὶ χώματι ἐν πέτρᾳ, καὶ ὡς πέτρα χειμάρρου Σωφείρ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְשִׁית עַל עָפָ֥ר בָּ֑צֶר וּבְצ֖וּר נְחָלִ֣ים אוֹפִֽיר
Haydock's commentary
Gold, to build and adorn thy habitation, ver. 23. Hebrew, "He will give thee gold instead of dust; (or more abundant) yea, gold of the torrents of Ophir." The Phasis is said to roll gold dust, which is of the purest kind, Genesis ii. 11. (Calmet)
"Thou shalt lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the stones of the brooks." (Protestants) (Haydock)
This is an exaggeration, (3 Kings x. 27.; Calmet) and a sort of proverb, intimating that strength and plenty should succeed to infirmity. The foundations should be the hard rock, instead of earth, &c.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.