Job 3:15
Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
In Context
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for abundance.
Job 22:25Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee;
Psalms 49:18Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime, and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself,
Zephaniah 1:18their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for a full end, yea, a sudden [end], shall he make of all them that dwell in 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 →