Job 27:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

Cross References

1 Kings 10:27

And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

Esther 8:1

That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.

Job 15:29

He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

Job 20:10

His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

Job 22:24

And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

Job 27:15

When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

Job 27:17

He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

Job 3:15

Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

Proverbs 13:22

The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Habakkuk 2:6

Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

Zephaniah 1:11

Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.

Zechariah 9:3

And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.

Matthew 6:19

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

James 5:2

Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.