Job 3:15
or with noblemen who collected gold and filled their houses with silver.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
In Context
14along with the kings of this world and their officials whose palaces now lie in ruins,
16Why wasn't I a miscarriage, buried in secret, a baby who never saw the light?
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar wood as plentiful as sycamore-figs in the foothills.
Job 22:25then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.
Psalms 49:18They congratulate themselves for all they possess—people always praise you when you do well—
Zephaniah 1:18Their silver and their gold won't help to save them on the day of the Lord's anger. The whole earth will be burned up by the fire of his jealous anger. He will make sure the end of the people of the world is sudden and complete.
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 →