Job 27:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

1 Kings 10:27

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamores of the Shephelah.

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.

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 22:24

if you treat gold like dust and gold of Ophir like the stones of the torrent bed,

Job 27:15

Those who survive them the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.

Job 27:17

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

Job 3:15

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

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.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them, “Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!” How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?

Zephaniah 1:11

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

Zechariah 9:3

Tyre has built itself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Matthew 6:19

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal,

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.