Job 3:15
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or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
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"You have heard of the patience of Job," says the apostle, Jam 5:11. So we have, and of his impatience too. We wondered that a man should be so patient as he was (ch. 1 and Job 2:1-13), but we wonder also that a good man should be so impatient as he is in this chapter, where we find him cursing his day, and, in passion, I. Complaining that he was born (Job 3:1-10). II. Complaining that he did not die as soon as he was born (Job 3:11-19). III. Complaining that his life was now continued when he was in misery (Job 3:20-26). In this it must be owned that Job sinned with his lips, and it is written, not for our imitation, but our admonition, that he who things he stands may take heed lest he fall.
Open source ↗3:15 rich in gold, whose palaces were filled with silver: This might refer to treasure-filled tombs, but it more likely refers to the futile hoarding of wealth that ends in death (as in 3:14).
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then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Neither 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 the earth.
Tyre has built herself a fortress;she has heaped up silver like dust,and gold like the dirt of the streets.
But 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.
He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
Their 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.