Verse 16

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothes like clay,

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Referenced Verses

  • Zech 9:3 : 3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt in the streets.
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
  • Jas 5:2 : 2 Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the lowlands.
  • Job 22:24 : 24 and assign your gold to the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Will not all these take up a taunt against him, with mocking sayings and riddles? They will say, "Woe to him who amasses what is not his! How long will this go on? And who weighs himself down with stolen goods?"