Job 27:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ Though he piles up silver like dust and heaps up fine clothing like clay –

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothing like clay,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;

Common English Bible

¹⁶ If they store up silver like dust, amass clothing like clay,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ If he will amass silver as if it were dirt and fabricate garments as if they were clay,

Job 27:16 Cross References

1 Kings 10:27

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones,  and he made cedar  as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.

Esther 8:1

That same day King Ahasuerus awarded Queen Esther the estate  of Haman, the enemy of the Jews.  Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed her relationship to Mordecai.

Job 15:29

He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions  will not increase in the land.

Job 20:10

His children will beg from   the poor, for his own hands must give back his wealth.

Job 22:24

and consign your gold to the dust, the gold of Ophir  to the stones in the wadis,

Job 27:15

Those who survive him will be buried by the plague, yet their widows will not weep for them.

Job 27:17

he may heap it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide up his silver.

Job 3:15

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses  with silver.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his   grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy;  but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Habakkuk 2:6

Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say, ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his – how much longer?   – and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.’

Zephaniah 1:11

Wail, you residents of the Hollow, for all the merchants  will be silenced; all those loaded with silver will be cut off.

Zechariah 9:3

Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Matthew 6:19

‘Don’t store up for yourselves treasures   on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

James 5:2

Your wealth has rotted and your clothes are moth-eaten.