Job 27:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Zechariah 9:3

And Tyre did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

Matthew 6:19

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth consume, and where thieves break through and steal:

James 5:2

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges!

Job 22:24

And lay thou thy treasure in the dust, And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;

1 Kings 10:27

And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

Job 3:15

Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

Job 15:29

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their produce bend to the earth.

Job 20:10

His children shall seek the favour of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.

Job 27:15

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.

Job 27:17

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

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Zephaniah 1:11

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone: all they that were laden with sliver are cut off.

Esther 8:1

On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.