Job 27:16
If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
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- Zech 9:3 : 3 Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!
- Matt 6:19 : 19 Lasting Treasure“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
- Jas 5:2 : 2 Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
- 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the foothills.
- Job 22:24 : 24 and throw your gold in the dust– your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines–
- Hab 2:6 : 6 The Proud Babylonians Are as Good as Dead“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him(How long will this go on?)– he who gets rich by extortion!’
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- Job 27:17-204 verses86%
17what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.
18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.
20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
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15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.
- Job 22:24-252 verses75%
24and throw your gold in the dust– your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines–
25then the Almighty himself will be your gold, and the choicest silver for you.
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6The Proud Babylonians Are as Good as Dead“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him(How long will this go on?)– he who gets rich by extortion!’
- Job 15:28-292 verses72%
28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
- Job 3:14-152 verses71%
14with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
15or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.
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6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
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38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?
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14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.
- Job 20:10-112 verses70%
10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.
11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
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19They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the LORD’s fury. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.
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19Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?
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1III. Job’s Search for Wisdom(28:1-28)No Known Road to Wisdom“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.
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9Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish and gold is brought from Ufaz to cover those idols. They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths. They are clothed in blue and purple clothes. They are all made by skillful workers.
- Job 21:32-332 verses69%
32And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,
33The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
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26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
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4Remove the dross from the silver, and material for the silversmith will emerge;
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15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
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21As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person must put his praise to the test.
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7There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.
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6a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;
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19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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10Covetousness The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile.
- Job 20:26-272 verses68%
26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.
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19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
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11The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
- Jas 5:2-32 verses68%
2Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
3Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!
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12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
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14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.
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27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
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29Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.
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34“Is this not stored up with me?” says the LORD,“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?
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21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”
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24The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
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6Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.
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23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.
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3Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!
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18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
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27Hezekiah was very wealthy and greatly respected. He made storehouses for his silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all his other valuable possessions.