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Ayub 31:24

Jikalau aku menaruh kepercayaan kepada emas, dan berkata kepada kencana: Engkaulah kepercayaanku;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covetousness;   Gold;   Hope;   Integrity;   Rich, the;   Temptation;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Riches, Earthly;   Security-Insecurity;   Trust in Riches;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hope;   Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hope;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hope;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gold;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Idolatry,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Confidence;   Fine;   Gold;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jikalau aku menaruh kepercayaan kepada emas, dan berkata kepada kencana: Engkaulah kepercayaanku;
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jikalau kiranya sudah kutaruh harapku pada emas, atau kataku kepada emas tua: Engkaulah pengharapanku;

Contextual Overview

24 Haue I put my trust in golde? or haue I sayde to the wedge of golde, thou art my confidence? 25 Haue I reioyced because my power was great, and because my hande gat so much? 26 Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne? or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation? 27 Hath my heart medled priuyly with any disceite? or did I euer kisse myne owne hande? 28 (That were a wickednesse worthy to be punished: for then shoulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue.) 29 Haue I euer reioyced at the hurt of myne enemie? or was I euer glad that any harme happened vnto him? [Oh, no.] 30 I neuer suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse to his soule. 31 Dyd not the men of myne owne housholde say, Who shall let vs to haue our belly full of his fleshe? 32 The straunger dyd not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him that went by the way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 31:1, Deuteronomy 8:12-14, Psalms 49:6, Psalms 49:7, Psalms 49:17, Psalms 52:7, Psalms 62:10, Proverbs 10:15, Proverbs 11:28, Proverbs 30:9, Mark 10:24, Luke 12:15, Colossians 3:5, 1 Timothy 6:10, 1 Timothy 6:17

Reciprocal: Esther 5:11 - the glory Psalms 10:3 - and blesseth Proverbs 18:11 - General Jeremiah 9:23 - rich Ezekiel 28:5 - and thine Hosea 12:8 - Yet Matthew 6:19 - General Matthew 19:23 - That Luke 12:19 - Soul Luke 18:23 - he was very sorrowful Galatians 6:14 - that I

Cross-References

Genesis 24:50
Then aunswered Laban and Bethuel, saying: This saying is proceeded euen of the Lorde, we can not therefore say vnto thee eyther good or bad.
Genesis 28:5
Thus Isahac sent foorth Iacob: and he went towarde Mesopotamia, vnto Laban, sonne of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebecca Iacob and Esaus mother.
Genesis 31:10
But in rammyng tyme, I lifted vp myne eyes, and sawe in a dreame, and beholde, the Rammes leaped vpon the sheepe that were ringstraked, spotted, and partie.
Genesis 31:14
Then aunswered Rachel, and Lea, and said vnto him: haue we had as yet any portion or inheritaunce in our fathers house?
Genesis 31:15
Doth not he count vs euen as straungers? for he hath solde vs, & hath quite deuoured also our money.
Genesis 31:17
Then Iacob rose vp, & set his sonnes and wyues vp vpon camelles:
Genesis 31:29
For it is in my hand through God to do you hurt: But the God of your father spake vnto me yesternight, saying: Take heede that thou speake not to Iacob ought saue good.
Genesis 31:42
And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Isahac had ben with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe all emptie: but God behelde my tribulation and the labour of my handes, and rebuked [thee] yesternyght.
Genesis 40:5
And they dreamed eyther of them in one night, both the butler and the baker of the kyng of Egypt, whiche were bounde in the pryson house, eyther of them his dreame, & eche mans dreame of a sundry interpretation.
Genesis 41:1
And after two yeres Pharao dreamed, and beholde, he thought that he stoode by a ryuers syde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If I have made gold my hope,.... Job here purges himself from idolatry in a figurative sense, as he afterwards does from it, taken in a literal sense; for covetousness is idolatry, and a covetous man is an idolater; he worships his gold and silver, placing his affections on them, and putting his trust and confidence in them, Ephesians 5:5; for to make gold the object or ground of hope is to place it in the room of God, who is the Hope of Israel, and in whom every good man should trust, and whom he should make his hope, Jeremiah 14:8; not gold on earth, but glory in heaven, is what the good man is hoping for; and not riches, but Christ and his righteousness, are the foundation of such an hope; to make gold our hope, is to have hope in this life, and to make a thing present the object of it; whereas true hope is of things not seen and future, and if only in this life good men have hope, they are of all most miserable; but they have in heavens better and a more enduring substance, and a better ground for hope of that substance, than worldly wealth and riches can give:

or have said to the fine gold, [thou art] my confidence; as bad men do, and good men are prone unto, and therefore to be cautioned against it,

Psalms 49:6; for this is not only to trust in uncertain riches, and in unsatisfying ones, but to put them in the stead of God, who is or ought to be the confidence of the ends of the earth: not gold, but the living God, who gives all things richly to enjoy, is to be trusted in; when men covet riches, and trust in them as their security from evil, and that they may live independent of the providence of God, it is virtually to deny it, and carries in it secret atheism; as well as such a confidence is destruction of the worship of God, and such a temper makes a man an unprofitable hearer, plunges him into errors and hurtful lusts, and endangers his everlasting happiness, Habakkuk 2:9; in later times the Romans worshipped the goddess "Pecunia", or money, as Austin z relates.

z De Civitate Dei, l. 4. c. 21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I have made gold my hope - That is, if I have put my trust in gold rather than in God; if I have fixed my affections with idolatrous attachment on riches rather than on my Maker. Job here introduces another class of sins, and says that his conscience did not charge him with guilt in respect to them. He had before spoken mainly of social duties, and of his manner of life toward the poor, the needy, the widow, and the orphan. He here turns to the duty which he owed to God, and says that his conscience did not charge him with idolatry in any form. He had indeed been rich, but he had not fixed his affections with idolatrous attachment on his wealth.

Or have said to fine gold - The word used here (כתם kethem) is the same which is employed in Job 28:16, to denote the gold of Ophir. It is used to express that which was most pure - from the verb כתם kâtham - to hide, to hoard, and then denoting that which was hidden, hoarded, precious. The meaning is, that he had not put his trust in that which was most sought after, and which was deemed of the highest value by people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:24. Gold my hope — For the meaning of זהב zahab, polished gold, and כתם kethem, stamped gold, see on Job 28:15-17.


 
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