Job 27:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare clothing as the clay;

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Referenced Verses

  • Zech 9:3 : 3 Tyre built herself a stronghold, And heaped up silver like the dust, And fine gold like the mire of the streets.
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
  • Jas 5:2 : 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
  • Job 22:24 : 24 Lay your treasure in the dust, The gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 27:17-20
    4 verses
    86%

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

    18He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes.

    19He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

    20Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

  • Job 27:15
    76%

    15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

  • Job 22:24-25
    2 verses
    75%

    24Lay your treasure in the dust, The gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

    25The Almighty will be your treasure, Precious silver to you.

  • Hab 2:6
    72%

    6Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

  • Job 15:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

  • Job 3:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

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

  • Ps 39:6
    70%

    6"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Job 38:38
    70%

    38When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of earth stick together?

  • Job 38:14
    70%

    14It is changed as clay under the seal, And stands forth as a garment.

  • Job 20:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

    11His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • Ezek 7:19
    69%

    19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Job 36:19
    69%

    19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, Or all the might of your strength?

  • Job 28:1
    69%

    1"Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

  • Jer 10:9
    69%

    9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

  • Job 21:32-33
    2 verses
    69%

    32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

    33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

  • Job 21:26
    69%

    26They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.

  • Prov 25:4
    69%

    4Take away the dross from the silver, And material comes out for the refiner;

  • Job 16:15
    69%

    15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.

  • Prov 27:21
    69%

    21The crucible is for silver, And the furnace for gold; But man is refined by his praise.

  • Prov 13:7
    68%

    7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • Job 28:6
    68%

    6Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

  • Job 30:19
    68%

    19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Eccl 5:10
    68%

    10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

  • Job 20:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, The earth shall rise up against him.

  • Job 4:19
    68%

    19How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

  • Jer 17:11
    68%

    11As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

  • Jas 5:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

    3Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

  • Job 13:12
    68%

    12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

  • Eccl 5:14
    68%

    14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

  • Job 41:27
    67%

    27He counts iron as straw; And brass as rotten wood.

  • Lam 3:29
    67%

    29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

  • Deut 32:34
    67%

    34Isn't this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

  • Luke 12:21
    67%

    21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  • Job 30:24
    67%

    24"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • Isa 46:6
    67%

    6Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.

  • Job 24:23
    67%

    23God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

  • Zech 9:3
    67%

    3Tyre built herself a stronghold, And heaped up silver like the dust, And fine gold like the mire of the streets.

  • Job 20:18
    67%

    18That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

  • 2 Chr 32:27
    67%

    27Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of goodly vessels;