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The Book of Job, Chapter 22, Verse 24

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If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
King James Version
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
American Standard Version
And lay thou [thy] treasure in the dust, And [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
New English Translation
and throw your gold in the dust– your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines–
World English Bible
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
25
Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
26
For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
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Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
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Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
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When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
30
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
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Then Job answered and said,
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Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!
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I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.