Job 3:15
or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
In Context
14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,
16Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars he made to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
Job 22:25Yea, the Almighty will be thy treasure, and precious silver to thee.
Psalms 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul (and men praise thee, when thou do well for thyself),
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of LORD's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →