Job 3:15
Or with princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
In Context
14With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.
Job 22:25And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
Psalms 49:18For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.
Zephaniah 1:18Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he shall make even a speedy destruction 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 →