🌪️WEB · Job 3:15

What does Job 3:15 mean?

"or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:"

— Job 3:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

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For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

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with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

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or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

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or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

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There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

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There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

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