Job 3:15

Or with rulers possessing, gold,—Who had filled their houses with silver:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 had built them pyramids:

16Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:27And the king caused silver in Jerusalem to be as stones,—cedars also, caused he to be as the sycamores that are in the lowlands, for abundance.

Job 22:25So shall, the Almighty, become, thy precious ores, yea glittering silver unto thee!

Psalms 49:18For, though, his own self—while he lived, he used to bless, And they will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,

Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor yet their gold, shall be able to deliver them, in the day of the indignation of Yahweh, but, in the fire of his jealousy, shall the whole earth be consumed; For, a destruction, surely a terrible one, will he make, with all them who dwell in 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 →

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