Job 3:15

either with princes, who possess gold and fill their houses with silver,

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In The King James Version

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

In Context

14with the kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes,

16or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:27And he caused silver to be as abundant in Jerusalem as stones, and he supplied a multitude of cedars like the sycamores that grow in the plains.

Job 22:25And the Almighty will be against your enemies, and silver will be gathered together for you.

Psalms 49:18If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.

Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver, nor their gold, will be able to free them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. All the land will be devoured in the fire of his zeal, for with all speed, he will bring to consummation every inhabitant of the land.

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 →

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