Job 3:15
Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
In Context
14With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:
16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?
Cross References
1 Kings 10:27And the King gaue siluer in Ierusalem as stones, and gaue cedars as the wilde figtrees that growe abundantly in the plaine.
Job 22:25Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
Psalms 49:18For while he liued, he reioyced himselfe: and men will prayse thee, when thou makest much of thy selfe.
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their siluer nor their golde shalbe able to deliuer them in ye day of the Lords wrath, but the whole lande shalbe deuoured by the fire of his ielousie: for hee shall make euen a speedie riddance of all them 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 →