Job 3:15
Good News Translation
Then I would be sleeping like princes who filled their houses with gold and silver,

New Revised Standard Version
or with princes who have gold, who fill their houses with silver.

Contemporary English Version
and with rulers once rich with silver and gold.

New American Bible
Or with princes who had gold and filled their houses with silver.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver:

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

who filled their houses.

Job 22:25 And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.

Job 27:16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

Numbers 22:18 Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either more or less.

1 Kings 10:27 And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.

Isaiah 2:7 Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their treasures.

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.

Zechariah 9:3 And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

Context
Job Laments His Birth
14With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes: 15Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver:16Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.…
Cross References
Job 3:16
Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.

Job 12:21
He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.

Job 27:16
If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

Job 27:17
He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Job 3:14
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