Job 22:22-24

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²²Accept the instruction from his lips
    and keep his words in your heart.^[a]
²³If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored;
    if you remove iniquity from your tent
²⁴and treat gold as if it were only dust
    and the gold of Ophir^[b] as pebbles from the stream,

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Footnotes

Job 22:22 Job responds to this verse in the next chapter (Job 23:12). Keep his words in your heart: see note on Ps 119:11.
Job 22:24 Ophir: a section of Arabia, probably on the western coast, from which highly refined gold was imported (see 1 Ki 9:28; 10:11; Ps 45:10).

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