Job 27:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,”
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BSBPD
“Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 27:16 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- Esther 8:1That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
- Job 3:15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
- Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
- 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?’
- Zechariah 9:3Tyre has built herself a fortress;she has heaped up silver like dust,and gold like the dirt of the streets.
- Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- James 5:2Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
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