Holy Scripture
Job 27:16
A church father on this verse
“Though he heap up silver as the earth, and prepare raiment as the mud; he may prepare, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. Silver is used to be interpreted the clearness of sacred Writ, as it is elsewhere said; The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of ea…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16Even if he should gather silver as earth, And prepare gold as clay;
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In context
14And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: And if they grow up, they shall beg.
15And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, And no one shall pity their widows.
— Job 27:16 —
17All these things shall the righteous gain, And the truehearted shall possess his wealth.
18And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider’s web.