Job 27:17

Contemporary English Version

But God's people will wear clothes taken from them and divide up their riches.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
he may heap it up, but the righteous will wear it,and the innocent will divide up his silver.

Hebrew Names Version
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

King James Version
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

English Standard Version
he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

New Century Version
But good people will wear what evil people have gathered, and the innocent will divide up their silver.

New English Translation
what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

Amplified Bible
He may prepare it, but the just will wear it And the innocent will divide the silver.

New American Standard Bible
He may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it And the innocent will divide the silver.

World English Bible
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer.

Legacy Standard Bible
He may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it,And the innocent will divide the silver.

Berean Standard Bible
what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.

Complete Jewish Bible
he may collect it, but the just will wear it, and the upright divide up the silver.

Darby Translation
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on; and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Easy-to-Read Version
But their piles of clothes will be worn by those who have lived right. All that silver will be given to those who have done no wrong.

George Lamsa Translation
They may pile them up, yet the righteous shall wear them, and shall also divide their silver.

Good News Translation
but some good person will wear the clothes, and someone honest will get the silver.

Lexham English Bible
he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

Literal Translation
he may prepare, but the just shall put it on; and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innocet shal deale out the money.

American Standard Version
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

Bible in Basic English
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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

King James Version (1611)
He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall diuide the siluer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He may well prepare it, but the godly shall put it on, and the innocent shall deale out the money.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All these things shall the righteous gain, and the truehearted shall possess his wealth.

English Revised Version
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sotheli he made redi, but a iust man schal be clothid in tho, and an innocent man schal departe the siluer.

Update Bible Version
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

Webster's Bible Translation
He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

New King James Version
He may pile it up, but the just will wear it, And the innocent will divide the silver.

New Living Translation
But the righteous will wear that clothing, and the innocent will divide that money.

New Life Bible
He may have it, but those who are right with God will wear it. And those who are without guilt will divide the silver.

New Revised Standard
they may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He may prepare, but, the righteous, shall put on, and, the silver, shall the innocent apportion.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Revised Standard Version
he may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

Young's Literal Translation
He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He may prepare it, but the just will wear it And the innocent will divide the silver.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Now I will explain in detail what God All-Powerful does. ¹² All of you have seen these things for yourselves. So you have no excuse. ¹³ Here is how God All-Powerful treats those who are wicked and brutal. ¹⁴ They may have many children, but most of them will go hungry or suffer a violent death. ¹⁵ Others will die of disease, and their widows won't be able to weep. ¹⁶ The wicked may collect riches and clothes in abundance as easily as clay. ¹⁷ But God's people will wear clothes taken from them and divide up their riches. ¹⁸ No homes built by the wicked will outlast a cocoon or a shack. ¹⁹ Those sinners may go to bed rich, but they will wake up poor. ²⁰ Terror will strike at night like a flood or a storm.

Bible Verse Review
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but the just: Proverbs 13:22, Proverbs 28:8, Ecclesiastes 2:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:22 - spoil Exodus 11:2 - borrow Joshua 8:2 - only the spoil 2 Kings 7:16 - spoiled the tents Esther 8:1 - give the house Job 15:29 - neither shall Psalms 39:6 - he heapeth Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth Proverbs 20:21 - but Proverbs 28:22 - and Ecclesiastes 5:14 - those Luke 12:20 - then

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He may prepare [it],.... Raiment; beginning with that first which was mentioned last, which is frequent in the Hebrew and eastern languages; such things may be done, and often are, by wicked men:

but the just shall put [it] on; the wicked man will either have no heart, or have no time, to wear it, at least to wear it out, and so a just man shall have it, as the Israelites put on the raiment of the Egyptians, which they begged or borrowed, and spoiled them of,

Exodus 12:35; and oftentimes so it is in Providence, that the wealth of wicked men is by one means or another transferred into the families of good men, who enjoy it, and make a better use of it, Proverbs 13:22;

and the innocent shall divide the silver; have a part of it at least, or divide the whole between his children, or give a part of it to the poor; so money that is ill gotten, or ill used, is taken away, and put into the hands of one that will have mercy on the poor, and liberally distribute it to them, Proverbs 28:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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. These two verses contain a beautiful illustration of what Dr. Jebb calls the introverted parallelism - where the fourth member answers to the first, and the third to the second:

“Though he heap up silver as the dust,

And prepare raiment as the clay,

The just shall put it (raiment) on,

And the innocent shall divide the silver.”

A similar instance occurs in Matthew 7:6 :

“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs,

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine,

Lest they (the swine) trample them under their feet.

And (the dogs) turn again and rend you.”

For a full illustration of the nature of Hebrew poetry, the reader may consult DeWette, Einleitung in die Psalmen, translated in the Biblical Repository, vol. iii. pp. 445ff, and Nordheimer’s Hebrew Grammar, vol. ii. pp. 319ff; see also the Introduction to Job, Section V.

The innocent shall divide the silver - That is, the righteous shall come into possession of it, and divide it among themselves. The wicked who had gained it shall not be permitted to enjoy it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 27:17. The just shall put it on — Money is God's property. "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord;" and though it may be abused for a time by unrighteous hands, God, in the course of his providence, brings it back to its proper use; and often the righteous possess the inheritance of the wicked.