Job 27:16
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
BSB
ASV
Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;
KJV
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Though he heap up silver - Though he amass riches in the greatest abundance, he shall not enjoy them. Unsanctified wealth is a curse to its possessor. Money, of all earthly possessions, is the most dangerous, as it is the readiest agent to do good or evil. He that perverts it is doubly cursed, because it affords him the most immediate means of sinful gratification; and he can sin more in an hour through this, than he can in a day or week by any other kind of property.
The Egyptians' jewels were the Israelites' pay. Solomon observes ( Eccl. ii. 26 ) that God makes the sinners drudges to the righteous; for the sinner he gives travail to gather and heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. [2.] They shall do good with it.
The fact is, it is probable that Job tacitly, by giving, in the twenty-eighth chapter, only a general answer, implies, that in spite of the wicked often dying, as he said, in prosperity, he does not mean to deny that the wicked are in the main dealt with according to right, and that God herein vindicates His moral government even here.
The walk8
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Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
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Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
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James 5:2Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
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Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.