Job 27:17
Good News Translation
but some good person will wear the clothes, and someone honest will get the silver.

New Revised Standard Version
they may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

Contemporary English Version
But God's people will wear clothes taken from them and divide up their riches.

New American Bible
What he has stored the righteous shall wear, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

but the just

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

Proverbs 28:8 He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.

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.

Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
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.18He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.…
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 20:18
He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.

Job 27:16
If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

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

Proverbs 28:8
He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.

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.

Job 27:16
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