Job 3:14
along with the kings of this world and their officials whose palaces now lie in ruins,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
In Context
13For now I would be lying down in peace. I would be sleeping and at rest,
15or with noblemen who collected gold and filled their houses with silver.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:43Solomon died and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam succeeded him as king.
Job 15:28But their cities will become desolate; they will live in abandoned houses that are crumbling into ruins.
Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth; they boast about their riches,
Psalms 89:48There's no one who doesn't die—no one can save themselves from the power of the grave. Selah.
Isaiah 5:8Tragedy is coming to you who buy house upon house and field upon field, joining them all together until no one else has anywhere to live and you live alone in the land.
Isaiah 14:18All the other kings of the nations lie in splendor in their great mausoleums.
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 →