Or with princes that had gold, &c. My repose and security from worldly anxieties would have been the same with that of those princes who were once celebrated for their wealth, and whose birth entitled them to large treasures of gold and silver. Or as a hidden That is, undiscerned and unregarded; untimely birth Born before the due time, and therefore extinct. I had not been To wit, in the land of the living, of which he here speaks; as infants which never saw light As those fœtuses that were never quickened, and come to nothing, or those infants which are stifled and dead before their birth.
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Job 3:15-16
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.