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Job Laments His Birth

Job 3:15

In 11 translations

BSB
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
KJV
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
WEB
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
ASV
Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
LSV
Or with princes—they have gold, || They are filling their houses [with] silver.
YLT
Or with princes — they have gold, They are filling their houses [with] silver.
DBY
Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
DRC
Or with princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:
GNV
Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.
JPS
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
LXXE
or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver:

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
א֣וֹ עִם־שָׂ֭רִים זָהָ֣ב לָהֶ֑ם הַֽמְמַלְאִ֖ים בָּתֵּיהֶ֣ם כָּֽסֶף׃
LXX-Br
ἢ μετὰ ἀρχόντων, ὧν πολὺς ὁ χρυσός, οἳ ἔπλησαν τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν ἀργυρίου·

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
  • Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on…
  • Job 22:25then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
  • Zechariah 9:3Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
  • Job 27:16–17Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
  • Job 12:21He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
  • Numbers 22:18But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
  • Isaiah 2:7Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.

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