¹⁶ If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

³ And Tyre doth build a bulwark to herself, And doth heap silver as dust, And gold as mire of out-places.

²⁷ And the king maketh the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he hath made as the sycamores that `are' in the low country, for abundance.

²⁴ So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

⁶ Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

¹⁹ `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;