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Job 27:16
Job 27:16 is verse 16 of Job chapter 27, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
King James Version
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
World English Bible
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
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Job 27:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
15 His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
17 what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
18 The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
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.