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Job 27:16–17

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16Though he jheap up silver like dust,

and pile up clothing like clay,

17he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it,

and kthe innocent will divide the silver.

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Cross references

  1. jZech. 9:3
  2. k[Prov. 13:22; Eccles. 2:26]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Though 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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Though he piles up silver like dust

and heaps up fine clothing like clay—

he may heap it up, but the righteous will wear it,

and the innocent will divide up his silver.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Evil people may have piles of money

and may store away mounds of clothing.

But the righteous will wear that clothing,

and the innocent will divide that money.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If he heaps up silver like the dust

and fashions clothing like the clay,

he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it,

and the innocent will divide the silver.

KJV 1900King James Version

Though he heap up silver as the dust,

And prepare raiment as the clay;

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on,

And the innocent shall divide the silver.