Job 27:16

New English Translation

If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

Cross References

1 Kings 10:27

The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands.

Esther 8:1

On that same day King Ahasuerus gave the estate of Haman, that adversary of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Now Mordecai had come before the king, for Esther had revealed how he was related to her.

Job 15:29

He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

Job 20:10

His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

Job 22:24

and throw your gold in the dust – your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines –

Job 27:15

Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

Job 27:17

what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

Job 3:15

or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.

Proverbs 13:22

A benevolent person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth – only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile – like chasing the wind!

Habakkuk 2:6

“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings: ‘The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead (How long will this go on?) – he who gets rich by extortion!’

Zephaniah 1:11

Wail, you who live in the market district, for all the merchants will disappear and those who count money will be removed.

Zechariah 9:3

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

Matthew 6:19

“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.