Job 3:14
With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
15Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Solomon went to rest with his fathers and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.
Job 15:28And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
Psalms 49:6\49:5\What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?
Psalms 89:48\89:47\See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
Isaiah 5:8Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his 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 →