Job 27:16
If he heaps up silver as dust, || And prepares clothing as clay,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
In Context
15His remnant are buried in death, || And his widows do not weep.
17He prepares—and the righteous puts [it] on, || And the innocent apportions the silver.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27And the king makes the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he has made the cedars as the sycamores that [are] in the low country, for abundance.
Job 3:15Or with princes—they have gold, || They are filling their houses [with] silver.
Habakkuk 2:6Are these not—all of them—an allegory taken up against him, || And a moral of acute sayings for him, || And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Until when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
Matthew 6:19Do not treasure up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,
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 →