Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,
New American Standard Bible
And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay,
King James Version
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Holman Bible
and heaps up a wardrobe like clay—
International Standard Version
"Though he hoards silver like dust, and stores away garments like clay,
A Conservative Version
Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
American Standard Version
Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;
Amplified
“Though he heaps up silver like dust
And piles up clothing like clay,
Bible in Basic English
Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
Darby Translation
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Julia Smith Translation
If he shall heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as clay;
King James 2000
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and pile up clothing as the clay;
Modern King James verseion
Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay,
NET Bible
If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
New Heart English Bible
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
The Emphasized Bible
Though he heap up silver like, dust, and, like a pile, he prepare clothing,
Webster
Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay?
World English Bible
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Youngs Literal Translation
If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,
Themes
Accumulation of wealth » The accumulation of, disappointing
Dress » Changes of clothes, the folly of excessive
earthly Riches » The perils of » The accumulation of, disappointing
Wealth » Accumulation of » The accumulation of, disappointing
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
15 Their survivors are buried through the plague, and their widows do not weep. 16 If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay, 17 he makes [it] ready, and [the] righteous will wear [it], and [the] innocent will divide [the] silver.
Names
Cross References
Zechariah 9:3
Tyre has built a fortification for itself, and it heaped up silver like dust, and gold like [the] mud of [the] streets.
1 Kings 10:27
The king made the silver in Jerusalem as the stones, and the cedars he made as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah in abundance.
Job 22:24
and [if you] put gold ore in [the] dust, and [the] gold of Ophir in [the] rock of wadis,
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? [For] how long? And, '[Woe to him] who makes himself heavy with pledges'?
Matthew 6:19
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
James 5:2
Your wealth has rotted, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.