Job 27:16
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
In Context
15His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
17what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Job 3:15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in 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 →