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Job 3:15

What does Job 3:15 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 3:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Or with princes--they have gold, They are filling their houses <FI>with<Fi> silver.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

Context

v.14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

v.15This passage

v.16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 27:16

    Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;

  • 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 Jehovah my God, to do less or more.

  • 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 lowland, for abundance.

  • Isaiah 2:7

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

  • Zechariah 9:3

    And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

  • Job 22:25

    And the Almighty will be thy treasure, And precious silver unto thee.

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