Key Verse Spotlight
Job 27:16 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;”
Job 27:16
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
If his children be multiplied, {it is} for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
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.
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth {that} the keeper maketh.
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