Job 3:15
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
World English Bible Classic
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 up waste places for themselves;
16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
Job 22:25The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
Psalms 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who 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 →