Holy Scripture
Job 27:17
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
17All these things shall the righteous gain, And the truehearted shall possess his wealth.
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In context
15And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, And no one shall pity their widows.
16Even if he should gather silver as earth, And prepare gold as clay;
— Job 27:17 —
18And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider’s web.
19The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: He has opened his eyes, and he is not.