Job 27:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

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Referenced Verses

  • Zech 9:3 : 3 And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
  • Jas 5:2 : 2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.
  • Job 22:24 : 24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

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  • Job 27:17-20
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    86%

    17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

    18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

    19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

    20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • Job 27:15
    76%

    15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

  • Job 22:24-25
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    75%

    24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

    25 Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;

  • Hab 2:6
    72%

    6 Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

  • Job 15:28-29
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    72%

    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

    29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • Job 3:14-15
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    71%

    14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

    15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Job 38:38
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    38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

  • Job 38:14
    70%

    14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

  • Job 20:10-11
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    70%

    10 His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

    11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Ezek 7:19
    69%

    19 They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

  • Job 36:19
    69%

    19 ...

  • Job 28:1
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    1 Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

  • Jer 10:9
    69%

    9 Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

  • Job 21:32-33
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    69%

    32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

    33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

  • Job 21:26
    69%

    26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Prov 25:4
    69%

    4 Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

  • Job 16:15
    69%

    15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

  • Prov 27:21
    69%

    21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

  • Prov 13:7
    68%

    7 A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

  • Job 28:6
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    6 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

  • Job 30:19
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    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Eccl 5:10
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    10 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

    27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

  • Job 4:19
    68%

    19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

  • Jer 17:11
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    11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

  • Jas 5:2-3
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    2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

    3 Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

  • Job 13:12
    68%

    12 Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

  • Eccl 5:14
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    14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

  • Lam 3:29
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    29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.

  • Deut 32:34
    67%

    34 Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?

  • Luke 12:21
    67%

    21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

  • Job 30:24
    67%

    24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • Isa 46:6
    67%

    6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

  • Job 24:23
    67%

    23 He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

  • Zech 9:3
    67%

    3 And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.

  • Job 20:18
    67%

    18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

  • 2 Chr 32:27
    67%

    27 And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels.