Job 3:15

Or with princes possessing gold, who fill their houses with silver;

Leeser Tanakh

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 up ruined places for themselves;

16Or as an untimely birth, hidden [from view] I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:27And the king rendered the silver in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedars he rendered like the sycamore-trees that are in the lowlands, for abundance.

Job 22:25Then will the Almighty be thy precious metal, and brightly-shining silver unto thee.

Psalms 49:18(49:19) For though he bless his soul during his life, and men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself:

Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord's wrath; through the fire of whose zeal the whole land shall be devoured; for destruction, yea, quite sudden, will he prepare for all the inhabitants of 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 →

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