Job 27:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

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Referenced Verses

  • Zech 9:3 : 3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 ¶ ‹Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:›
  • Jas 5:2 : 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he [to be] as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale, for abundance.
  • Job 22:24 : 24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

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    17 He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

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    20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

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  • Job 22:24-25
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    24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

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  • Hab 2:6
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    6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

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  • Job 3:14-15
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    14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

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    6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • Job 38:38
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    38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

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    14 It is turned as clay [to] the seal; and they stand as a garment.

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    19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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    19 Will he esteem thy riches? [no], not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

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  • Job 21:32-33
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    26 All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

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