King James Version
Job 3:15 in the King James Version says “Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:” — study this verse from Job chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:”
Job 3:15 · KJV
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. weary: Heb. wearied in strength
KJV Study — Public Domain
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“that had gold”
H2091gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e., yellow), as oil, a clear sky
“who filled”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“their houses”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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