Job 3:15
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 built up waste places for themselves;
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore-trees that are in the Lowland, for abundance.
Job 22:25And the Almighty be thy treasure, and precious silver unto thee;
Psalms 49:18(49-19) Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself';
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole earth shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy; for He will make and end, yea, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the earth.
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 →