King James Version
Job 27:16 in the King James Version says “Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;” — study this verse from Job chapter 27 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;”
Job 27:16 · KJV
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“as the clay”
H2563properly, a bubbling up, i.e., of water, a wave; hence, a chomer or dry measure
“and prepare”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
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