He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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Gill's Exposition
He buildeth his house as a moth,.... Which builds its house in a garment by eating into it, and so destroying it, and in time eats itself out of house and home, and however does not continue long in…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Job's friends had seen a great deal of the misery and destruction that attend wicked people, especially oppressors; and Job, while the heat of disputation lasted, had said as much, and with as much…
Cambridge Bible
When the ungodly are swept away the righteous remain and enter into their possessions, and the meek inherit the earth, Psa 37:29; Psa 37:34.