Job 27:16
If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
In Context
15His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
17He prepareth — and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27And the king maketh the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he hath made 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 2:6Do not these — all of them — against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
Matthew 6:19'Treasure not 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 →