Job 27:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ they may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ they may amass, but the righteous will wear it; the innocent will divide the silver.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ then yes, he will gather, but the just will be clothed with it and the innocent will divide the silver.

Job 27:17 Cross References

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.

Proverbs 28:8

One who augments wealth by exorbitant interest gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Job 3:15

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

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 20:18

They will give back the fruit of their toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of their trading they will get no enjoyment.

Job 27:16

Though they heap up silver like dust and pile up clothing like clay,

Zephaniah 1:11

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

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.