Job 27:16

In 11 translations

BSB

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

KJV

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

If he heaps up silver as dust, || And prepares clothing as clay,

YLT

If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

DBY

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

DRC

If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

GNV

Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,

JPS

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

LXXE

Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay;

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Original-language editions

WLC

אִם־יִצְבֹּ֣ר כֶּעָפָ֣ר כָּ֑סֶף וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶר יָכִ֥ין מַלְבּֽוּשׁ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν συναγάγῃ ὥσπερ γῆν ἀργύριον, ἶσα δὲ πηλῷ ἑτοιμάσῃ χρυσίον,

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• Zechariah 9:3Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
• Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
• James 5:2Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
• Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
• Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
• 1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

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