Job 3:15
or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver:
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
In Context
14with kings and councillors of the earth, who gloried in their swords;
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27And the king + 10:27 Gr. gave.made gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores in the plain for multitude.
Job 22:25So the Almighty shall be thy helper from enemies, and he shall bring thee forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire.
Psalms 49:18If thou sawest a thief, thou + 49:18 See 1 Pe 4. 4.rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.
Zephaniah 1:18And their silver and their gold shall in nowise be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit 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 →