Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares 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;
Lexham Expanded Bible
If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions 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 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death; and his widows shall not weep. 16 Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay, 17 he may prepare, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Names
Cross References
Zechariah 9:3
And Tyre shall build herself a stronghold, and shall heap up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets;
1 Kings 10:27
And the king made silver like stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars like the sycamore trees in the valley for abundance.
Job 22:24
Then you shall lay up gold like dust, and among the rock of the torrents of Ophir.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on himself?
Matthew 6:19
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
James 5:2
Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.