American Standard Version
"Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay; "
— Job 27:16, American Standard Version
“Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;”
“Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;”
“If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,”
“If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,”
“Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;”
“Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;”
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:
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 make no lamentation.
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 the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.