Job 3:15
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Majority Standard Bible
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, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Job 22:25then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
Psalms 49:18Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul—and men praise you when you prosper—
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on 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 →