Job 27:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Though they heap up silver like dust and pile up 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,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

Job 27:16 Cross References

1 Kings 10:27

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamores of the Shephelah.

Esther 8:1

On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.

Job 15:29

they will not be rich, and their wealth will not endure, nor will they strike root in the earth;

Job 20:10

Their children will seek the favor of the poor, and their hands will give back their wealth.

Job 22:24

if you treat gold like dust and gold of Ophir like the stones of the torrent bed,

Job 27:15

Those who survive them the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.

Job 27:17

they may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

Job 3:15

or with princes who have gold, who fill their houses with silver.

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them, “Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!” How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?

Zephaniah 1:11

The inhabitants of the Mortar wail, for all the traders have perished; all who weigh out silver are cut off.

Zechariah 9:3

Tyre has built itself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Matthew 6:19

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal,

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.