Job 27:16
Good News Translation
The wicked may have too much silver to count and more clothes than anyone needs;

New Revised Standard Version
Though they heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay—

Contemporary English Version
The wicked may collect riches and clothes in abundance as easily as clay.

New American Bible
Though he heap up silver like dust and store away mounds of clothing,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

heap up

Job 22:24 He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.

1 Kings 10:27 And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.

Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?

Zechariah 9:3 And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

9th century, had so many presents made him, that at his death he was found possessed of

100 suits of clothes,

200 shirts, and

500 turbans.)

Matthew 6:19 Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.

James 5:2 Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
15They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep. 16If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,17He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.…
Cross References
Job 3:15
Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver:

Job 15:29
He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.

Job 20:10
His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

Job 27:15
They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

Job 27:17
He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Proverbs 13:22
The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.

Ecclesiastes 2:26
God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Zephaniah 1:11
Howl, ye inhabitants of the Morter. All the people of Chanaan is hush, all are cut off that were wrapped up in silver.

Zechariah 9:3
And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

Job 27:15
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