Job 27:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The just shall put it on; either because it shall be given to him by the judge to recompense those injuries which he received from that tyrant; or because the right of it is otherwise transferred upon him by Divine Providence. The innocent shall divide the silver; either,

1. To the poor; he shall distribute that which the oppressor hoarded up and kept as wickedly as he got it. So this suits with Proverbs 28:8 Ecclesiastes 2:26. Or,

2. With others, or to himself; he shall have a share of it, when by the judge's sentence those ill-gotten goods shall be restored to the right owners.

Job 27:17

17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.