¹⁵ Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses `with' silver.

¹⁸ And Balaam answereth and saith unto the servants of Balak, `If Balak doth give to me the fulness of his house of silver and gold, I am not able to pass over the command of Jehovah my God, to do a little or a great thing;

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.

²¹ Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

²⁵ And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver `is' strength to thee.

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

¹⁷ He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth `it' on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.

⁷ And its land is full of silver and gold, And there is no end to its treasures, And its land is full of horses, And there is no end to its chariots,

¹⁸ Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!

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