Job 27:17
he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
In Context
16Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
18He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
Cross References
Esther 8:1On that day king Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman the Jews' enemy to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.
Proverbs 28:8He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
Matthew Henry on Job 27:12-23
Heritage of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall… Read the whole commentary →