Job 27:17
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Job 27:17 in other translations
| BSB | what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent. |
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| WEB | he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver. |
| ASV | He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver. |
| YLT | He prepareth--and the righteous putteth it on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion. |
| DARBY | He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on; and the innocent shall divide the silver. |
| BBE | He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage. |
| Webster | He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. |
What does Job 27:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 27:11-23
11-23. These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (see on Job 21:22-33; Job 24:22-25). Job 21:22-33; 24:22-25). They therefore seem to be Job's statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said had he spoken when his turn came (end of the twenty-sixth chapter). So Job stated the friends' opinion (Job 21:17-21; 24:18-21). The objection is, why, if so, does not Job answer…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 27:11-23
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to…
Job 27:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 27:17
- Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
- Proverbs 28:8
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26
For 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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Context
- Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
- Job 27:17
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
- Job 27:18
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Job 27:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Habrála él preparado, mas el justo se vestirá, y el inocente repartirá la plata. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il se les prépare, mais le juste s’en vêtira; et l’argent, c’est l’innocent qui se le partagera. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | er bereitet sie, aber der Gerechte bekleidet sich damit; und Schuldlose teilen sich in das Silber. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | præparabit quidem, sed justus vestietur illis, et argentum innocens dividet. |