Job 3:15
Or with princes—they have gold, || They are filling their houses [with] silver.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
In Context
14With kings and counselors of earth, || These building ruins for themselves.
16(Or I am not as a hidden abortion, || As infants—they have not seen light.)
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27And the king makes the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he has made the cedars as the sycamores that [are] in the low country, for abundance.
Job 22:25And the Mighty has been your defense, || And silver [is] strength to you.
Psalms 49:18For he blesses his soul in his life || (And they praise you when you do well for yourself).
Zephaniah 1:18Even their silver, even their gold, is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of YHWH, and in the fire of His jealousy is the whole land consumed, for He makes only a hurried end of 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 →