The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.
Job 27:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Though he piles up silver like dust and heaps up fine clothing like clay – Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothing like clay, American Standard Version (1901) Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay; Common English Bible If they store up silver like dust, amass clothing like clay, Catholic Public Domain Version If he will amass silver as if it were dirt and fabricate garments as if they were clay, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay, |
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.
That same day King Ahasuerus awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed her relationship to Mordecai.
He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not increase in the land.
His children will beg from the poor, for his own hands must give back his wealth.
and consign your gold to the dust, the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,
Those who survive him will be buried by the plague, yet their widows will not weep for them.
he may heap it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide up his silver.
A good man leaves an inheritance to his grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say, ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his – how much longer? – and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.’
Wail, you residents of the Hollow, for all the merchants will be silenced; all those loaded with silver will be cut off.
Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets.
‘Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.