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Job 3:15 — Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

who filled their houses		"That is, ""the covetous, whom nothing can satisfy,"" as the poet Saady has observed, ""but the dust that fills his mouth, when laid in the grave."" Job 22:25; Job 27:16; Num 22:18; 1Ki 10:27; Isa 2:7; Zep 1:18; Zec 9:3"

Correlating Passages

who filled their houses

	Job 22:25	Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
	Job 27:16	Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
	Num 22:18	And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
	1Ki 10:27	And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he [to be] as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale, for abundance.
	Isa 2:7	Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:
	Zep 1:18	Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
	Zec 9:3	And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

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