Job 3:15

Or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, 1 Who filled their houses with silver: 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

In Context

14With kings and counselors of the earth, 1 Who gloried in their swords; 1

16Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, 1 Or as infants who never saw light. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:27And the king 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, 1 And he shall bring thee forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire. 1

Psalms 49:18If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, 1 And hast cast in thy lot with adulterers. 1

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 →

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