Job 27:16

16 The wicked may have too much silver to count and more clothes than anyone needs;

Job 27:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 27:16

Though he heap up silver as the dust
Which, as it denotes the great abundance of it collected together, so it expresses the bias and disposition of such a man's mind, that he cannot be content without amassing great quantities of it, and also his diligence and success therein, see ( 1 Kings 10:27 ) ( Psalms 39:6 ) ( Habakkuk 2:6 ) ;

and prepare raiment as the clay;
not merely, for use, but pomp and show, to fill his wardrobes with; and formerly, raiment was part of the treasure of great men: the phrase signifies that he might have such a variety of raiment, and such large quantities of it, that he would value it no more than so much clay; or else that his riches, consist of what it would, would be both polluting and troublesome to him; the Septuagint version reads "gold" instead of "raiment", as in ( Zechariah 9:3 ) , where like expressions are used of Tyre.

Job 27:16 In-Context

14 They may have many sons, but all will be killed in war; their children never have enough to eat.

15 Those who survive will die from disease, and even their widows will not mourn their death.

16 The wicked may have too much silver to count and more clothes than anyone needs;

17 but some good person will wear the clothes, and someone honest will get the silver.

18 The wicked build houses like a spider's web or like the hut of a slave guarding the fields.