Job 3:14
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
15or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Job 15:28And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Psalms 49:6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,
Psalms 89:48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Isaiah 5:8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, each one in his own house.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →