Job 27:16

New International Reader's Version

Sinners might store up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay.

Cross References

1 Kings 10:27

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones. He made cedar wood as common there as sycamore-fig trees in the western hills.

Esther 8:1

That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther everything Haman had owned. Haman had been the enemy of the Jews. Esther had told the king that Mordecai was her cousin. So Mordecai came to see the king.

Job 15:29

They won’t be rich anymore. Their wealth won’t last. Their property will no longer spread out over the land.

Job 20:10

Their children must pay back what they took from poor people. Their own hands must give back the wealth they stole.

Job 22:24

You must throw your gold nuggets away. You must toss your gold from Ophir into a valley.

Job 27:15

A plague will kill those who are left alive. The widows of sinful men won’t even weep over their own children.

Job 27:17

But people who do what is right will wear those clothes. People who haven’t done anything wrong will divide up that silver.

Job 3:15

I’d be with princes who used to have gold. They had filled their houses with silver.

Proverbs 13:22

A good person leaves what they own to their children and grandchildren. But a sinner’s wealth is stored up for those who do right.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness to the person who pleases him. But to a sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth. Then the sinner must hand it over to the one who pleases God. That doesn’t have any meaning either. It’s like chasing the wind.

Habakkuk 2:6

“Won’t those people laugh at the Babylonians? Won’t they make fun of them? They will say to them, “ ‘How terrible it will be for you who pile up stolen goods! You get rich by cheating others. How long will this go on?’

Zephaniah 1:11

Cry out, you who live in the market places. All your merchants will be wiped out. Those who trade in silver will be destroyed.

Zechariah 9:3

Tyre’s people have built a fort for themselves. They’ve piled up silver like dust. They have as much gold as the dirt in the streets.

Matthew 6:19

“Do not gather for yourselves riches on earth. Moths and rats can destroy them. Thieves can break in and steal them.

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted. Moths have eaten your clothes.