Job 27:16

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

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  • 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?"

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  • Job 27:17-20
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    86%

    17 he may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide his silver.

    18 He builds his house like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.

    19 The rich man lies down, but he will not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

    20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away.

  • Job 27:15
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    15 His survivors will be buried in death, and his widows will not weep for them.

  • Job 22:24-25
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    24 and assign your gold to the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,

    25 then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.

  • Hab 2:6
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    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?"

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28 he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

    29 He will no longer be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread out across the land.

  • Job 3:14-15
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    14 With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

    15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.

  • Job 38:38
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    38 when the dust becomes hard as metal and the clods of earth stick together?

  • Job 38:14
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    14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a garment.

  • Job 20:10-11
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    10 His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will return his wealth.

    11 The youthful vigor that filled his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  • Ezek 7:19
    69%

    19 They will throw their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has caused their stumbling into sin.

  • Job 36:19
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    19 Will your cry for help set things in order in distress, or will your exertions of strength suffice?

  • Job 28:1
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    1 Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

  • Jer 10:9
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    9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz—the work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple, all made by skilled workers.

  • Job 21:32-33
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    32 He is carried to the graves, and a watch is kept over his tomb.

    33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless go before him.

  • Job 21:26
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    26 They lie down together in the dust, and worms cover them.

  • Prov 25:4
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    4 Remove the impurities from silver, and a vessel will come forth for the refiner.

  • Job 16:15
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    15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin and buried my strength in the dust.

  • Prov 27:21
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    21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, but a person is tested by their praise.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7 One pretends to be rich yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor yet has great wealth.

  • Job 28:6
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    6 Its rocks are the source of sapphires, and it contains dust of gold.

  • Job 30:19
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    19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • Eccl 5:10
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    10 As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26 Total darkness is hidden for his treasures; a fire not kindled by man will consume him and devour what remains in his tent.

    27 The heavens will expose his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.

  • Job 4:19
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    19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

  • Jer 17:11
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    11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay, so is one who gains wealth by unjust means. In the middle of his life, it will desert him, and in the end, he will prove to be a fool.

  • Jas 5:2-3
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    2 Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

    3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

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    12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

  • Eccl 5:14
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    14 As everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, so they depart naked as they came. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

  • Lam 3:29
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    29 Let him put his mouth in the dust—there may yet be hope.

  • Deut 32:34
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    34 Is it not stored up with Me, sealed in My treasuries?

  • Luke 12:21
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    21 So it is with one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

  • Job 30:24
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    24 Surely one does not stretch out a hand in ruin or cry for help in disaster.

  • Isa 46:6
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    6 They pour out gold from their purses and weigh silver on a scale. They hire a craftsman to make it into a god, and they bow down and even worship it.

  • Job 24:23
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    23 He allows them to rest in security, but His eyes are on their ways.

  • Zech 9:3
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    3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt in the streets.

  • Job 20:18
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    18 He will give back the fruit of his labor but will not swallow it; like the wealth of his trade, he will not enjoy it.

  • 2 Chr 32:27
    67%

    27 Hezekiah had great wealth and honor. He made treasuries for silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of valuable possessions.

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