Job 27:17
what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
BSB
ASV
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.
KJV
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
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Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
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Ecclesiastes 2:26To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over…
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A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
The just shall put it on - The righteous shall wear it. It shall pass out of the hands of him who prepared it, into the hands of others. The meaning is, that the wicked, though they become rich, would not live to enjoy their ill-gotten gains.
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.