Chap. 22. .11n Expofitien upon the Book of J OB. Verf. 24. 243 riches {hall be encreaféd, thou 'halt have a greater ftçire and flock t hen ever. Thcufh:rlt lay up goldas thedaft. And as it followeth The gold of Ophir as the flánes ofthe broke. 'Tis the fame thing in another tenour ofwords;the Hebrew is Thou ¡halt lay up Ophir at the "tones of the brook. The word gold O; hit No nÑ is not expreffed in the Originali ; yet it may well beunderftood ; ' °¡uta P.na' du- Ophir is put for the Gold ofOphir,becaufeOphir was the place of t,"a.fe , 1:-; Gold, yea of the richeft Gold (t Kings 9. 27, 28,) They came gooá inae ojhir to Ophir andfet from thencegoldfourshundred and twenty tallents, ajela,urn,. hoc andbr; uflt it to king Solomon. Ophir was a noted place in thole elf, ut gkijarn times for gold, _both in reference to the plenty and purity of it. own nt f ßphij 'Tis a (pet/ion much controverted, where Ophir is ; forte ma- 'ri(um Druf. king it tobean hand in Africa; others place it in India; fnce the difcovery ofeA'merica or the Weft-Indies,many contend,that Ophir is now called Peru; and they have (as they conceive ) a probable ground for this opinion from that place in the holy Sto- /iá: E Ta. ry (2 Chron. 3. 6.) VVhere'ris fatd, He (that is, S lornon) gar- inhunc locum nifhed thehoufe withprecious 'batsforbeauty,and thc gold wasgold phi, ofpaeuaim, which is neer in found to the name of that Gold - aboundingCountry in America called perm.' 'hall not undertake to decide this Geographical( Controverfie about Ophir : That which is agreed on all hands is enough for my purpofe, and the explicationof this Text, that Ophir was a Country famous in an- cient times, both for the plenty and excellency ofthe Gold found thereand brought from 'thence. Therefore faid Eliphaz, Thou /halt lay up Ophir, that is, the Gold of Ophir, pure and precious Gold. As the Penesof thebrooke. That is, thou (halt have abundance ofgold ; to lay up gold as the duff, and to lay it up as the/lines ofthe brook, or as the (ones ofthe valley, are paralel expre'ñons for plenty of Gold,futeable to thofe hyperbole's(z Citron. i. t5.) The kingmade fslver and gold as 3erufalem as plenteous as./lanes, &c. And Ch. 9th ofthe fame booke (v. 27.)The Kingmade laver in yerufalem as./loner, and Cedar trees made he, as the Siccamare trees that are in the low plain in abundance. Thus in the text fob is promifed to lay up the GoldofOpbir, as the (tonesofthe brooke. The Vulgar tranflationreads differently; He (hallgive theefir 1 i2 earth
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