Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —
15Or with princes that 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 hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps.
Psalms 49:6(49-7) Of them that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches?
Psalms 89:48(89-49) What man is he that liveth and shall not see death, that shall deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah
Isaiah 5:8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep 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 →