45 The form is the imperative. Eliphaz is telling Job to get rid of his gold as evidence of his repentance. Many commentators think that this is too improbable for Eliphaz to have said, and that Job has lost everything anyway, and so they make proposals for the text. Most would follow Theodotion and the to read וְשָׁתָּ (véshatta, “and you will esteem.…”). This would mean that he is promising Job restoration of his wealth. Heb “place.”
46 The word for “gold” is the rare בֶּצֶר (betser), which may be derived from a cognate of Arabic basara, “to see; to examine.” If this is the case, the word here would refer to refined gold. The word also forms a fine wordplay with בְצוּר (bétsur, “in the rock”).
47 The Hebrew text simply has “Ophir,” a metonymy for the gold that comes from there.
48 The form for “gold” here is plural, which could be a plural of extension. The and Latin versions have “The Almighty will be your helper against your enemies.”
49 E. Dhorme (Job, 339) connects this word with an Arabic root meaning “to be elevated, steep.” From that he gets “heaps of silver.”
50 This is the same verb as in Ps 37:4. G. R. Driver suggests the word comes from another root that means “abandon oneself to, depend on” (“Problems in the Hebrew text of Job,” 3 [1955]: 84).

In other versions

if you lay gold in the dust,

and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,

then the Almighty will be your gold

and your precious silver.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty

and lift up your face to God.

and assign your nuggets to the dust,

your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,

then the Almighty will be your gold,

the choicest silver for you.

Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty

and will lift up your face to God.

and consign your gold to the dust,

the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,

the Almighty will be your gold

and your finest silver.

Then you will delight in the Almighty

and lift up your face to God.

If you give up your lust for money

and throw your precious gold into the river,

the Almighty himself will be your treasure.

He will be your precious silver!

“Then you will take delight in the Almighty

and look up to God.

and if you put gold ore in the dust,

and the gold of Ophir in the rock of wadis,

then Shaddai will be your gold ore

and your precious silver.

Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai,

and you will expect that God will be good to you.

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust,

And the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence,

And thou shalt have plenty of silver.

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty,

And shalt lift up thy face unto God.

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