Job 27:16

Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

In Context

15When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

17He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:27And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

Job 3:15Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

Habakkuk 2:6Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

Matthew 6:19Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

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 →

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