Job 3 · Verse 15

Job 3:15

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job 3:15, King James Version

Job 3:15 in other translations

BSBor with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
WEBor with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
ASVOr with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
YLTOr with princes--they have gold, They are filling their houses with silver.
DARBYOr with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
BBEOr with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;
WebsterOr with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

What does Job 3:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 Or 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, as an Asiatic writer has observed, but the dust that fills his mouth when laid in the grave - Saady.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 3:11-19

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…

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Job 3:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

א֣וֹ'oorH176
עִם\־'i.m.Sa-withH5973
שָׂ֭רִיםSa.rimprincesH8269
זָהָ֣בza.Hav[whom] goldH2091
לָהֶ֑םla.Hem[belonged] to them
הַֽמְמַלְאִ֖יםha.mal.'Imthose [who] filledH4390
בָּתֵּיהֶ֣םba.tei.Hemhouses theirH1004
כָּֽסֶף\׃Ka.sefsilverH3701

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 3:15

  • 1 Kings 10:27

    And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.

  • Job 22:25

    Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

  • Zephaniah 1:18

    Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

  • Numbers 22:18

    And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

  • Job 27:16-17

    Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

  • Isaiah 2:7

    Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

  • Job 12:21

    He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

  • Zechariah 9:3

    And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
who filled their houses.That is, "the covetous, whom nothing can satisfy," as the poet Saady has observed, "but the dust that fills his mouth, when laid in the grave."
22:25; 27:16; Nu 22:18; 1Ki 10:27; Isa 2:7; Zep 1:18; Zec 9:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 3:14

    With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

  • Job 3:15

    Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

  • Job 3:16

    Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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Job 3:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		O con los príncipes que poseían el oro, que henchían sus casas de plata.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ou avec les princes qui ont de l’or, qui ont rempli d’argent leurs maisons;
German
Elberfelder 1871		oder mit Fürsten, die Gold hatten, die ihre Häuser mit Silber füllten;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		aut cum principibus qui possident aurum, et replent domos suas argento;