KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 27:16–18
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Job 27:16
16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
16Though he heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay:
Job 27:17
17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
17He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall diuide the siluer.
Job 27:18
18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 27:16
A pile or mass; to collect or pile up.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Fine, dry particles of earth; the ground or earth, often as an image of frailty, abasement, or death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To make all things ready; to put things in suitable order. Ina general sense, to fit, adapt or qualify for a particular purpose, end, use, service or state, by any means whatever.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Job 27:17
To make all things ready; to put things in suitable order. Ina general sense, to fit, adapt or qualify for a particular purpose, end, use, service or state, by any means whatever.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Free from guilt in a matter; not blameworthy, harmful, or deserving punishment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To part or separate an entire thing; to part a thing into two or more pieces. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition or by an imaginary line or limit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Job 27:18
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The small winged creature called a moth, known in the KJV for consuming or corrupting garments and other perishable things.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A house or shed built of boards, boughs of trees, or other slight materials, for a temporary residence.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study3And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
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Open the full verse study27And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
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Open the full verse study6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
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Open the full verse study2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
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Open the full verse study24Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
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Open the full verse study26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Open the full verse study8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
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Open the full verse study14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
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Open the full verse study8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
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Open the full verse study12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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Open the full verse study6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
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