God’s Word Translation
Job 27:16
16Though he collects silver like dust and piles up clothing like dirt,
Job 27:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
- New International Version (NIV)Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
- English Standard Version (ESV)Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Though he heaps up silver like dust, And piles up clothing like clay—
Context of Job 27:16
14If he has many children, swords will kill them, and his descendants won’t have enough food. 15Those who survive him will be buried by a plague, and their widows won’t cry ⌞for them⌟. Though he collects silver like dust and piles up clothing like dirt, 17righteous people will wear what he piles up, and the innocent will divide the silver ⌞among themselves⌟. 18He builds his house like a moth, like a shack that a watchman makes.
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אִם־יִצְבֹּ֣ר כֶּעָפָ֣ר כָּ֑סֶף וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶר יָכִ֥ין מַלְבּֽוּשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 27:16
- Job 22:24and lay your gold down in the dust, and put your gold from Ophir among the pebbles in the rivers,
- 1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as plentiful as fig trees in the foothills.
- Habakkuk 2:6Won’t all of them ridicule him, directing clever sayings and riddles at him, like: “ ‘How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?’
- Zechariah 9:3Tyre built itself a fortress. It piled up silver like dust and gold like mud in the streets.
- Matthew 6:19“Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal.
- James 5:2Your riches have decayed, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.
Commentaries on Job 27:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Though he heap up silver - Though he amass riches in the greatest abundance, he shall not enjoy them. Unsanctified wealth is a curse to its possessor. Money, of all earthly possessions, is the most dangerous, as it is the readiest agent to do good or evil. He that perverts it is doubly cursed, because it affords him the most immediate means of sinful gratification; and he can sin more in an hour through this, than he can in a day or week by any other kind…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Though he heap up silver as the dust - That is, in great quantities - as plenty as dust; compare 1 Kings 10:27, “And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones.” And prepare raiment - Oriental wealth consisted much in changes of raiment. Sir John Chardin says that in the East it is common to gather together immense quantities of furniture and clothes. According to D‘Herbelot, Bokteri, an illustrious poet; of Cufah in the ninth century, had so many…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-23Verses 11-23 Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-23Some interpreters think this is a new speech by Zophar. Without it, Zophar has no speech in this cycle.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-2311-23. These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (see on Job 21:22-33; Job 24:22-25). Job 21:22-33; 24:22-25). They therefore seem to be Job's statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said had he spoken when his turn came (end of the twenty-sixth chapter). So Job stated the friends' opinion (Job 21:17-21; 24:18-21). The objection is, why, if so, does not Job answer Zophar's opinion, as stated by himself? The…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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