Job 3:15
Or with princes that had gold, And filled their houses with silver;
Noyes Bible
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 for themselves—ruins!
16Or, as a hidden untimely birth, I had perished; As infants which never saw the light.
Cross References
Job 22:25Then shall the Almighty be thy gold, Yea, treasures of silver unto thee;
Psalms 49:18Though in his life he thought himself happy,—Though men praised thee, while thou wast in prosperity,—
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah, But by the fire of his indignation shall the whole land be devoured; For destruction, and that a speedy one, will he bring Upon all that dwell in 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 →