¹⁶ Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

³ And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.

²⁷ And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

²⁴ And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

⁶ Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

¹⁹ Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.