Job 3:14
with the kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep
15either with princes, who possess gold and fill their houses with silver,
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David, his father. And Rehoboam, his son, reigned in his place.
Job 15:28He has lived in desolate cities and deserted houses, which have been turned into tombs.
Psalms 49:6And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
Isaiah 5:8Woe to you who join house to house, and who combine field to field, even to the limits of the place! Do you intend to live alone in the midst of the earth?
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations throughout the whole world have slept in glory, each man 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 →