Job 27:16
Even though they pile up silver like dust, and clothes like heaps of clay,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
In Context
15Those who survive will die from disease, and even their widows will not mourn for them.
17those who do good will wear the clothes and the innocent will divide the silver among them.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar wood as plentiful as sycamore-figs in the foothills.
Job 3:15or with noblemen who collected gold and filled their houses with silver.
Habakkuk 2:6Won't all these peoples taunt them? They will ridicule them, saying, “What disaster is coming to you who pile up things that don't belong to you! You make yourselves rich by forcing debtors to pay! How long can you go on doing this?”
Matthew 6:19Don't pile up wealth here on earth where moths and rust ruin it, and where thieves break in and steal it.
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 →