Job 3:14
With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.
15Or with princes, that possess gold, and All 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 Roboam his son reigned in his stead.
Job 15:28He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.
Psalms 49:6Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.
Psalms 89:48Remember what my substance is for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?
Isaiah 5:8dummy verses inserted by amos
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations have all of them slept 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 →