Tree of Life Version
Job 3:15
15with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Job 3:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
- New International Version (NIV)with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
- English Standard Version (ESV)or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver;
Context of Job 3:15
13For now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep and at rest 14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now desolate, with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. 16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn, like infants who never saw light? 17There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
Read all of Job 3Job 3:15 word by word
א֣וֹ עִם־שָׂ֭רִים זָהָ֣ב לָהֶ֑ם הַֽמְמַלְאִ֖ים בָּתֵּיהֶ֣ם כָּֽסֶף׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 3:15
- Job 22:25then Shaddai will be your gold and your precious silver.
- Job 27:16Though he piles up silver like dust, and clothing like heaps of mortar,
- Numbers 22:18But Balaam answered Balak’s servants, “Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot cross beyond the mouth of Adonai my God, to do anything small or great!
- 1 Kings 10:27Also the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees in the foothills.
- Isaiah 2:7Their land also is full of silver and gold, nor is there any limit to their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, nor is there any limit to their chariots.
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to rescue them on the day of Adonai’s wrath. With the fire of His passion the entire earth will be consumed. For He will make a total, dreadful annihilation of all the inhabitants of the earth.
- Zechariah 9:3Tyre built herself a fortress and heaped up silver like dust and fine gold like dirt in the streets.
Commentaries on Job 3:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Or with princes that had gold - Chief or mighty men, lords of the soil, or fortunate adventurers in merchandise, who got gold in abundance, filled their houses with silver, left all behind, and had nothing reserved for themselves but the empty places which they had made for their last dwelling, and where their dust now sleeps, devoid of care, painful journeys, and anxious expectations. He alludes here to the case of the covetous, whom nothing can satisfy…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Or with princes that had gold - That is, he would have been united with the rich and the great. Is there not here too also a slight evidence of the fondness for wealth, which might have been one of the errors of this good man? Would it not seem that such was his estimate of the importance of being esteemed rich, that he would count it an honor to be united with the affluent in death, rather than be subjected to a condition of poverty and want among the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-19Verses 11-19 Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his pity and patience spared our forfeited lives. Natural affection is put into parents' hearts by God. To desire to die that we may be with Christ, that we may be free from sin, is the effect and evidence of grace; but to desire to die, only that we may be…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: This might refer to tombs filled with treasure. However, it more likely refers to the useless storing of wealth that ends in death (as in 3:14).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. filled their houses with silver--Some take this to refer to the treasures which the ancients used to bury with their dead. But see Job 3:26.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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