NET Bible
"If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,"
— Job 27:16, NET Bible
“Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;”
“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 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 the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.
If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.
If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.
The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.