Job 27:17

Job 27:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
• English Standard Version (ESV)he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
• New King James Version (NKJV)He may pile it up, but the just will wear it, And the innocent will divide the silver.
• New Living Translation (NLT)But the righteous will wear that clothing, and the innocent will divide that money.

Context of Job 27:17

15The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them. 16Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay, what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver. 18The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman. 19He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

Job 27:17 word by word

יָ֭כִין וְצַדִּ֣יק יִלְבָּ֑שׁ וְ֝כֶ֗סֶף נָקִ֥י יַחֲלֹֽק׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He may prepareכּוּןkûn · to establish: prepareH3559
• but the justצַדִּיקtsaddîyq · righteousH6662
• onלָבֵשׁlâbash lâbêsh · to clotheH3847
• and the innocentנָקִיnâqîy nâqîy' · innocentH5355
• shall divideחָלַקchâlaq · to divideH2505
• the silverכֶּ֫סֶףkeseph · silver: moneyH3701

Cross-references for Job 27:17

• Proverbs 13:22A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
• Proverbs 28:8Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.
• Ecclesiastes 2:26To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Commentaries on Job 27:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17The just shall put it on - Money is God's property. "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord;" and though it may be abused for a time by unrighteous hands, God, in the course of his providence, brings it back to its proper use; and often the righteous possess the inheritance of the wicked.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17The just shall put it on - The righteous shall wear it. It shall pass out of the hands of him who prepared it, into the hands of others. The meaning is, that the wicked, though they become rich, would not live to enjoy their ill-gotten gains. These two verses contain a beautiful illustration of what Dr. Jebb calls the introverted parallelism - where the fourth member answers to the first, and the third to the second: “Though he heap up silver as the dust…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

Topics related to Job 27:17

• Hypocrisy
• Oppression
• Rich, the
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Deceit
• Heap
• Job, Book of
• lament, lamentation

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