Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
15Or with princes 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 dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
Psalms 49:6They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches.
Psalms 89:48What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Isaiah 5:8Woe unto them that add house to house, that join field to field, until there is no more room, and that ye dwell yourselves alone in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every 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 →